The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature

Author:   Tracy Fessenden ,  Nicholas F. Radel ,  Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415926409


Pages:   321
Publication Date:   17 November 2000
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Tracy Fessenden ,  Nicholas F. Radel ,  Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780415926409


ISBN 10:   0415926408
Pages:   321
Publication Date:   17 November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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An intellectual joining of Sacvan Bercovitch's Puritan Origins of the American Self and Michel Foucault's History of Sex....[F]amiliar and unfamiliar figures, historical and modern, are revealed in a new light..... - Religious Studies Review, January 2002 For those who imagine there is nothing more to say about the vexed relations between Puritanism and American sexuality, this richly inflected, shrewdly edited collection of essays holds many surprises. Treating the entire history of their associations, it adds a new chapter to our understanding of religion and the body in America. -Giles Gunn, University of California, Santa Barbara ... nuanced, historically informed readings of Puritan discourses and their afterlives in later cultural texts. -Glenn Hendler, University of Notre Dame, in the Journal of Religion


An intellectual joining of Sacvan Bercovitch's Puritan Origins of the American Self and Michel Foucault's History of Sex....[F]amiliar and unfamiliar figures, historical and modern, are revealed in a new light..... <br>- Religious Studies Review, January 2002 <br> For those who imagine there is nothing more to say about the vexed relations between Puritanism and American sexuality, this richly inflected, shrewdly edited collection of essays holds many surprises. Treating the entire history of their associations, it adds a new chapter to our understanding of religion and the body in America. <br>-Giles Gunn, University of California, Santa Barbara <br>... nuanced, historically informed readings of Puritan discourses and their afterlives in later cultural texts. <br>-Glenn Hendler, University of Notre Dame, in the Journal of Religion <br>


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Tracy Fessenden is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Nicholas Radel is Professor of English at Furman University. MagdalenaZaborowska is Associate Professor of English at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

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