To kiss the chastening rod : domestic fiction and sexual ideology in the American Renaissance /
Goshgarian, G. M.
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press,
1992.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-234) and index.
The fictional subject -- The facts of life in the 1850s -- His sister's keeper : Susan Warner's The wide, wide world -- Life with father : Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah -- Go away and die : The lamplighter, 'Lena Rivers, Ernest Linwood.
Domestic fiction, American
Women and literature
American fiction
American fiction
Incest in literature.
Family in literature.
Sex in literature.