Doron S Ben-Atar, Richard D Brown

Taming Lust

Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

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 region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780812223750
• ISBN-10: 0812223756
• Artikelnr.: 44828687

Autorenporträt

By Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown

Inhaltsangabe

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
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments