The Puritan Origins of American Sex

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Emory Elliott; 1. Introduction: The Puritan Origins of American Sex, Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, and Magdalena J. Zaborowska ; 2. Wigglesworth, Mather, Starr: Witch-hunts and General Wickedness in Public, Ed Ingebretsen ; 3. A Sodom Withing: Historicizing Puritan Homoerotics in the Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, Nicholas F. Radel ; 4. Remember Me: The Wonders of an Invisible World: Sex, Patriarcy, and Paranoia in Early America, Boris Vejdovsky ; 5. Uncleanliness is Next to Godliness: Sexuality, Salvation, and the Early American Women's Execution Narrative, Jodi Schorb ; 6. The Puritan Eye-Ball, or, Sexing the Transcendent, Rene L. Bergland ; 7. Ejaculating Tongues: Poe, Mather, and the Jewish Penis, Gustavus Stadler ; 8. Now You Shall See How a Slave was Made a Man: Gendering Frederick Douglass's Struggles with Christianity, Darryl Dickson-Carr ; 9. Enslaving Passions: White Male Sexuality and the Evasion of Race, Russ Castronovo ; 10. The other Woman's Sphere: Nuns, Prostitutes, and the Medicalization of Middle-Class Domesticity, Tracy Fessenden ; 11. Christian Maidens and Heathen Monks: Oratorical Seduction at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions, Carrie Tirado Bramen ; 12. Americanization of a Queer Fellow: Performning Jewishness and Sexuality in Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky , with a Footnote on the (Monica)Lewinsky'ed Nation, Magdalena Zaborowska ; 13. Desert of the Heart : Jane Rule's Puritan Outing, Margaret Soenser Breen ; 14. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Gardner, Robert Morace ; 15. Down Here in Paradise: Toni Morrison's Americas, Judith Wilt ; Notes on Contributors; Index