To Kiss The Chastening Rod

Author : Geoffrey M. Goshgarian
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501738607
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Kiss the Chastening Rod written by Geoffrey M. Goshgarian and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : G. M. Goshgarian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801497902
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Kiss the Chastening Rod written by G. M. Goshgarian and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic subject of bestselling antebellum "woman's fiction" written by women about women for women was, according to G.M. Goshgarian, sex--more particularly, incest. Goshgarian takes a close and penetrating look at the facts of life in the United States of the 1850s and offers "improper" readings of five bestselling works of women's fiction, now largely forgotten. In Goshgarian's view, the typical narrative of such domestic novels recounts the forging of a "true woman," detailing the trials and tribulations which--in one of the age's favorite metaphors--bring an excessively "passionate" adolescent heroine to "kiss the Father's chastening rod." Goshgarian maintains that, although their authors presented woman as pure and sexless, the pivot of these narratives was woman's, especially the moral mother's, natural incestuousness. 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. Through close readings of Maria Susanna Cummins's The Lamplighter, Mary Jane Holmes's Lena Rivers, Caroline Lee Hentz's Ernest Linwood, Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah, and Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, it demonstrates how woman's fiction simultaneously perpetuated and subverted the image of the passionless true woman. To Kiss the Chastening Rod will be read and vigorously debated by Americanists and Victorianists, literary theorists, and students of gender studies, popular culture, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature.

Author : CATHARINE ELIZABETH O'CONNELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CHASTENING THE ROD: SENTIMENTAL STRATEGIES IN THREE ANTEBELLUM NOVELS BY WOMEN (WOMEN WRITERS, WARNER SUSAN, STOWE HARRIET BEECHER, WILSON HARRIET). written by CATHARINE ELIZABETH O'CONNELL and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: womanhood in antebellum American culture.

Author : Robert Blakey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.9F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hints on Angling written by Robert Blakey and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer Mason
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801880711
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civilized Creatures written by Jennifer Mason and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Civilized Creatures, Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped American literature and culture. Mason argues that in the second half of the nineteenth century the most powerful influence on Americans' understanding of their affinities with animals was not increasing separation from the pastoral and the wilderness; instead, it was the population's feelings about the ostensibly civilized animals they encountered in their daily lives. Americans of diverse backgrounds, Mason shows, found it attractive as well as politic to imagine themselves as most closely connected to those creatures who shared humans' aptitude for civilized life. And to the minds of many in this period, national prosperity depended less on periodic exposure to untamed, wild nature than it did on the proper care and keeping of such animals within suburban and urban environments. Combining literary analysis with cultural histories of equestrianism, petkeeping, and the animal welfare movement, Civilized Creatures offers new readings of works by Susan Warner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charles W. Chesnutt. In each case, Mason demonstrates that understanding contemporary relationships between humans and animals is essential for understanding the debates about gender, race, and cultural power enacted in these texts.

Author : Philip D. Beidler
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817357300
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Books written by Philip D. Beidler and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels. Early 19th-century Alabama was a society still in the making. Now Philip Beidler tells how the first books written and published in the state influenced the formation of Alabama's literary and political culture. As Beidler shows, virtually overnight early Alabama found itself in possession of the social, political, and economic conditions required to jump start a traditional literary culture in the old Anglo-European model: property-based class relationships, large concentrations of personal wealth, and professional and merchant classes of similar social, political, educational, and literary views. Beidler examines the work of well-known writers such as humorist Johnson J. Hooper and novelist Caroline Lee Hentz, and takes on other classic pieces like Albert J. Pickett's History of Alabama and Alexander Beaufort Meek's epic poem The Red Eagle. Beidler also considers lesser-known works like Lewis B. Sewall's verse satire The Adventures of Sir John Falstaff the II, Henry Hitchcock's groundbreaking legal volume Alabama Justice of the Peace, and Octavia Walton Levert's Souvenirs of Travel. Most of these works were written by and for society's elite, and although many celebrate the establishment of an ordered way of life, they also preserve the biases of authors who refused to write about slavery yet continually focused on the extermination of Native Americans. First Books returns us to the world of early Alabama that these texts not only recorded but helped create. Written with flair and a strong individual voice, it will appeal not only to scholars of Alabama history and literature but also to anyone interested in the antebellum South.

Author : Jean Pfaelzer
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822974983
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parlor Radical written by Jean Pfaelzer and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1996-10-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Harding Davis was a prominent author of radical social fiction during the latter half of the nineteenth century. In stories that combine realism with sentimentalism, Davis confronted a wide range of contemporary American issues, giving voice to working women, prostitutes, wives seeking divorce, celibate utopians, and female authors. Davis broke down distinctions between the private and the public worlds, distinctions that trapped women in the ideology of domesticity. By engaging current strategies in literary hermeneutics with a strong sense of historical radicalism in the Gilded Age, Jean Pfaelzer reads Davis through the public issues that she forcefully inscribed in her fiction. In this study, Davis's realistic narratives actively construct a coherent social work, not in a fictional vacuum but in direct engagement with the explosive movements of social change from the Civil War through the turn of the century.

Author : Mary Chapman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520216228
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sentimental Men written by Mary Chapman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-10-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text analyses cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history. They analyze sentimentalism not just as a literary game but as a structure of feeling manifested in many areas.

Author : Palmer Hackle
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528768523
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hints on Angling - With Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium written by Palmer Hackle and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hints on Angling” is a vintage guide to fishing written by Palmer Hackle, ESQ. It offers expert tips and simple instructions for catching a variety of common fish, with sections on equipment, where and when to fish, their habits and habitats, and much more. This volume will be of considerable utility to anglers new and old, and it is not to be missed by the discerning collector of vintage fishing literature. Contents include: “Description of Fish”, “The Salmon”, “Trout”, “Pike”, “Perch”, “Carp”, “Tench”, “Barbel”, “Bream”, “Chub”, “Roach”, “Dace”, “Bleak”, “Pope or Ruffe”, “Eel”, “Loach”, “Minnow”, “Smelt”, “Gudgeon”, “Char”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fishing.

Author : Robert Blakey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.X7/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angler's Song Book written by Robert Blakey and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: