Taming Lust : : Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic / / Richard D. Brown, Doron S. Ben-Atar.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 21 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Crimes Against Nature
- Chapter 1. The Sisyphean Battle Against Bestiality
- Chapter 2. The Unlikely Prosecutions of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn
- Chapter 3. Sexual Crisis in the Age of Revolution
- Chapter 4. Fearful Rulers in Anxious Times
- Chapter 5. Puritan Twilight in the New England Republics
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments