The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American LiteratureTracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, Magdalena J. Zaborowska Psychology Press, 2001 - 308 pages From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs. |
Contents
WitchHunts and General | 21 |
Historicizing Puritan Homoerotics | 41 |
The Wonders of an Invisible World | 56 |
Sexuality Salvation | 72 |
The Puritan Eyeball or Sexing the Transcendent | 93 |
Poe Mather and the Jewish Penis | 109 |
White Male Sexuality and | 145 |
Nuns Prostitutes | 169 |
Oratorical | 191 |
Performing | 213 |
Jane Rules Puritan Outing | 235 |
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Gardner | 253 |
Toni Morrisons Americas | 273 |
Notes on Contributors | 293 |
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