Description: Further DetailsTitle: Taming LustCondition: NewSubtitle: Crimes Against Nature in the Early RepublicISBN-10: 0812223756EAN: 9780812223750ISBN: 9780812223750Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/15/2016Description: In 1796, as revolutionary fervor waned and the Age of Reason took hold, an eighty-five-year-old Massachusetts doctor was convicted of bestiality and sentenced to hang. Three years later and seventy miles away, an eighty-three-year-old Connecticut farmer was convicted of the same crime and sentenced to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown delve into the specifics to determine what larger social, political, or religious forces could have compelled New England courts to condemn two octogenarians for sexual misbehavior typically associated with much younger men. The stories of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn are less about the two old men than New England officials who, riding the rough waves of modernity, returned to the severity of their ancestors. The political upheaval of the Revolution and the new republic created new kinds of cultural experience—both exciting and frightening—at a moment when New England farmers and village elites were contesting long-standing assumptions about divine creation and the social order. Ben-Atar and Brown offer a rare and vivid perspective on anxieties about sexual and social deviance in the early republic.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Doron S. Ben-Atar, Richard D. BrownGenre: HistoryBook Series: Early American StudiesRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Taming Lust
Title: Taming Lust
Subtitle: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
ISBN-10: 0812223756
EAN: 9780812223750
ISBN: 9780812223750
Release Date: 12/15/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Early American Studies
Book Title: Taming Lust : Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), General, United States / General, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Law, Psychology, History
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.7 in
Author: Richard D. Brown, Doron S. Ben-Atar
Book Series: Early American Studies
Item Width: 5.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback