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...
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| 语言: | 英语 |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press
2014.
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| 丛编: | Early American studies.
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjmn6 |
书本目录:
- 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.