Author: Goshgarian, G. M.
Title: To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance.
Description: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 237 pp. Condition : as new. - Examining ideas about masturbation, female sexuality, the family, and post-Calvinist religion that shaped the readership of popular woman's fiction, To Kiss the Chastening Rod shows that passionlessness was the privileged theme of a pervasive discourse which sought to exert social control through the rigorous repression, minute supervision, and covert cultivation of sexuality. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. ISBN 9780801425592.

Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM, incest