To kiss the chastening rod
Subtitle: sex in American domestic fiction of the 1850's
By: by G. M. Goshgarian
Published: 1988
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Sex in literature; Family in literature; Incest in literature
Notes: Includes vita

Thesis (Ph.D)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1988

Bibliography: leaves 298-310

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI : UMI ; 1993. viii, 310 p. ; 21 cm
Table of contents: value: Abstract of the dissertation; value: The fictional subject; value: The facts of life in the 1850s; value: His sister's keeper: Susan Warner's The wide, wide world; value: Life with father: Augusta Jane Evan's Beulah; value: The trials of the innocents: The lamplighter, Lena Rivers, Ernest Linwood; value: Appendix A. The fiction factory and its customers in the 1850s