Taming Lust
Subtitle: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
Series: Early American Studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Jan 17, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780812245813
Description: This fascinating history examines the circumstances of two elderly New Englanders who were prosecuted and executed 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.
Notes: Source title: Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic (Early American Studies)
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: The Sisyphean battle against bestiality
pagenum: 10; title: The unlikely prosecutions of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn
pagenum: 41; title: Sexual crisis in the age of revolution
pagenum: 71; title: Fearful rulers in anxious times
pagenum: 96; title: Puritan twilight in the New England republics
pagenum: 129; title: Notes
pagenum: 151; title: Index
pagenum: 199