To Kiss The Chastening Rod

Author : Geoffrey M. Goshgarian
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501738609

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To Kiss the Chastening Rod by Geoffrey M. Goshgarian Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0801497906

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To Kiss the Chastening Rod by G. M. Goshgarian Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015021909109

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CHASTENING THE ROD: SENTIMENTAL STRATEGIES IN THREE ANTEBELLUM NOVELS BY WOMEN (WOMEN WRITERS, WARNER SUSAN, STOWE HARRIET BEECHER, WILSON HARRIET). by CATHARINE ELIZABETH O'CONNELL Pdf

womanhood in antebellum American culture.

Author : Robert Blakey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Fishes
ISBN : HARVARD:HWAV9F

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Hints on Angling by Robert Blakey Pdf

Author : Jennifer Mason
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0801880718

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Civilized Creatures by Jennifer Mason Pdf

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
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817357306

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First Books by Philip D. Beidler Pdf

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
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822974987

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Parlor Radical by Jean Pfaelzer Pdf

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,Glenn Hendler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0520216229

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Sentimental Men by Mary Chapman,Glenn Hendler Pdf

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
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781528768528

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Hints on Angling - With Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium by Palmer Hackle Pdf

“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 : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Fishing
ISBN : HARVARD:HWDEX7

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The Angler's Song Book by Robert Blakey Pdf

Author : Robert BLAKEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026882688

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The Angler's Song Book. Compiled and Edited by R. Blakey by Robert BLAKEY Pdf

Author : Robert K. Martin,Leland S. Person
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587294044

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Roman Holidays by Robert K. Martin,Leland S. Person Pdf

Featuring essays by twelve prominent American literature scholars, Roman Holidaysexplores the tradition of American travel to Italy and makes a significant contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century American encounters with Italian culture and, more specifically, with Rome. The increase in American travel to Italy during the nineteenth century was partly a product of improved conditions of travel. As suggested in the title, Italy served nineteenth-century writers and artists as a kind of laboratory site for encountering Others and “other” kinds of experience. No doubt Italy offered a place of holiday—a momentary escape from the familiar—but the journey to Rome, a place urging upon the visitor a new and more complex sense of history, also forced a reexamination of oneself and one's identity. Writers and artists found their religious, political, and sexual assumptions challenged. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun has a prominent place in this collection: as Henry James commented in his study of Hawthorne, the book was “part of the intellectual equipment of the Anglo-Saxon visitor to Rome.” The essayists also examine works by James, Fuller, Melville, Douglass, Howells, and other writers as well as such sculptors as Hiram Powers, William Wetmore Story, and Harriet Hosmer. Bringing contemporary concerns about gender, race, and class to bear upon nineteenth-century texts, Roman Holidays is an especially timely contribution to nineteenth-century American studies.

Author : Brian Connolly
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812209853

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Domestic Intimacies by Brian Connolly Pdf

Although it is commonly thought that incest has been taboo throughout history, nineteenth-century Americans evinced a great cultural anxiety that the prohibition was failing. Theologians debated the meaning and limits of biblical proscription, while jurists abandoned such injunctions and invented a new prohibition organized around the nuclear family. Novelists crafted fictional tales of accidental incest resulting from the severed ties between public and private life, while antislavery writers lamented the ramifications of breaking apart enslaved families. Phrenologists and physiologists established reproduction as the primary motivation of the incest prohibition while naturalizing the incestuous eroticism of sentimental family affection. Ethnographers imagined incest as the norm in so-called primitive societies in contrast to modern civilization. In the absence of clear biological or religious limitations, the young republic developed numerous, varied, and contradictory incest prohibitions. Domestic Intimacies offers a wide-ranging, critical history of incest and its various prohibitions as they were defined throughout the nineteenth century. Historian Brian Connolly argues that at the center of these convergent anxieties and debates lay the idea of the liberal subject: an autonomous individual who acted on his own desires yet was tempered by reason, who enjoyed a life in public yet was expected to find his greatest satisfaction in family and home. Always lurking was the need to exercise personal freedom with restraint; indeed, the valorization of the affectionate family was rooted in its capacity to act as a bulwark against licentiousness. However it was defined, incest was thus not only perceived as a threat to social stability; it also functioned to regulate social relations—within families and between classes as well as among women and men, slaves and free citizens, strangers and friends. Domestic Intimacies overturns conventional histories of American liberalism by placing the fear of incest at the heart of nineteenth-century conflicts over public life and privacy, kinship and individualism, social contracts and personal freedom.

Author : Lucy Frank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351150224

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Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture by Lucy Frank Pdf

From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human finitude informs the texture of nineteenth-century US writing. This collection traces the vicissitudes of this cultural preoccupation with the subject of death and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Contributors from North America and the United Kingdom, representing the fields of literature, theatre history, and American studies, analyze the sexual, social, and epistemological boundaries implicit in nineteenth-century America's obsession with death, while also seeking to give a voice to the strategies by which these boundaries were interrogated and displaced. Topics include race- and gender-based investigations into the textual representation of death, imaginative constructions and re-constructions of social practice with regard to loss and memorialisation, and literary re-conceptualisations of death forced by personal and national trauma.

Author : Monika M Elbert,Lesley Ginsberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317671787

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Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Monika M Elbert,Lesley Ginsberg Pdf

American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children’s literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications attest to an abiding faith in the power of pedagogy that has its roots in transatlantic Romantic conceptions of pedagogy and literacy. The essays in this collection examine the on-going influence of Romanticism in the long nineteenth century on American thinking about education, as depicted in literary texts, in historical accounts of classroom dynamics, or in pedagogical treatises. They also point out that though this influence was generally progressive, the benefits of this social change did not reach many parts of American society. This book is therefore an important reference for scholars of Romantic studies, American studies, historical pedagogy and education.