The Puritan origins of American sex : religion, sexuality, and national identity in American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fessenden, Tracy, Radel, Nicholas F., 1955-, Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The Puritan origins of American sex / Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, and Magdalena J. Zaborowska
  • Wigglesworth, Mather, Starr : witch-hunts and general wickedness in public / Ed Ingebretsen
  • A Sodom within : historicizing Puritan homoerotics in the diary of Michael Wigglesworth / Nicholas F. Radel
  • "Remember me" : the wonders of an invisible world--sex, patriarchy, and paranoia in early America / Boris Vejdovsky
  • Uncleanliness is next to godliness : sexuality, salvation, and the early American woman's execution narrative / Jodi Schorb
  • The Puritan eyeball, or, sexing the transcendent / RenĂ©e L. Bergland
  • Ejaculating tongues : Poe, Mather, and the Jewish penis / Gustavus Stadler
  • Now you shall see how a slave was made a man : gendering Frederick Douglass's struggles with Christianity / Darryl Dickson-Carr
  • Enslaving passions : white male sexuality and the evasion of race / Russ Castronovo
  • The other woman's sphere : nuns, prostitutes, and the medicalization of middle-class domesticity / Tracy Fessenden
  • Christian maidens and heathen monks : oratorical seduction at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions / Carrie Tirado Bramen
  • Americanization of a "queer fellow" : performing Jewishness and sexuality in Abraham Cahan's The rise of David Levinsky, with a footnote on the (Monica) Lewinsky'ed nation / Magdalena J. Zaborowska
  • Desert of the heart : Jane Rule's Puritan outing / Margaret Soenser Breen
  • Sinners in the hands of an angry Gardner / Robert A. Morace
  • "Down here in paradise" : Toni Morrison's Americas / Judith Wilt.