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Taming Lust
Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
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Artikel-Nr:
9780812223750
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.12.2016
Seiten:
216
Autor:
Doron S Ben-Atar
Gewicht:
322 g
Format:
229x152x12 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
By Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown
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.
Introduction. Crimes Against NatureChapter 1. The Sisyphean Battle Against BestialityChapter 2. The Unlikely Prosecutions of John Farrell and Gideon WashburnChapter 3. Sexual Crisis in the Age of RevolutionChapter 4. Fearful Rulers in Anxious TimesChapter 5. Puritan Twilight in the New England Republics