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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957963403321

Autore

Carpenter Mary Wilson <1937->

Titolo

Imperial Bibles, domestic bodies : women, sexuality, and religion in the Victorian market / / Mary Wilson Carpenter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8214-4179-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

220/.0941/09034

Soggetti

Families - Religious life - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Christian women - Religious life - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - 19th century

Christian literature - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Sex in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Authorized Version in the Marketplace -- 1/ Consumer Christianity -- 2/Closeting the Family Bible and the Family -- 3/Family Bibles and Family Angels -- Part II: Consuming the Authorized Version -- 4/Playing with Sacred Pages -- 5/"A Bit of Her Flesh" -- 6/Victorian Schemes of the Apocalypse -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring the production and consumption of British commerical family bibles, this book sheds light on the history of women's sexuality, and the English view of such taboo subjects as same-sex relations, masturbation, menstruation and circumcision.