Taming lust : crimes against nature in the early republic /

This fascinating history examines the circumstances of two elderly New Englanders who were prosecuted and sentenced to death for bestiality at the turn of the eighteenth century. Their astonishing cases become a springboard to examine the Enlightenment Era political and religious turmoil of the regi...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Ben-Atar, Doron S. (著者)
その他の著者: Brown, Richard D.
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press 2014.
シリーズ:Early American studies.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjmn6
目次:
  • Introduction: Crimes Against Nature
  • Chapter 1. The Sisyphean Battle Against Bestiality
  • Chapter 2. The Unlikely Prosecutions of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn
  • Chapter 3. Sexual Crisis in the Age of Revolution
  • Chapter 4. Fearful Rulers in Anxious Times
  • Chapter 5. Puritan Twilight in the New England Republics.