To Kiss the Chastening Rod
Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance| By: | Geoffrey M. Goshgarian |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780801425592 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781501738609 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 1992 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.