Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Body Language: Religion, Sexuality, and the Bioluminescence of Metaphor
- 2 The Stubborn Density of Desire: Religion and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- 3 A Tradition of Divine Lechery: Men Write about the Ministry
- 4 A War of Words: Women Write about the Ministry. The Homiletic writers
- 5 Comfort to the Enemy: Women Write about the Ministry. The Parsonage Romance
- 6 The Fox in the Well: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Androcentric Imagination
- 7 Fatal Abstractions: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Gynocentric Imagination
- 8 Conclusion: Words Are Not the Thing Itself
- Appendix A The Homiletic Novels and Their Authors
- Appendix B The Parsonage Romances and Their Authors
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Body Language: Religion, Sexuality, and the Bioluminescence of Metaphor
- 2 The Stubborn Density of Desire: Religion and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- 3 A Tradition of Divine Lechery: Men Write about the Ministry
- 4 A War of Words: Women Write about the Ministry. The Homiletic writers
- 5 Comfort to the Enemy: Women Write about the Ministry. The Parsonage Romance
- 6 The Fox in the Well: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Androcentric Imagination
- 7 Fatal Abstractions: Metaphors of Embodiment in the Gynocentric Imagination
- 8 Conclusion: Words Are Not the Thing Itself
- Appendix A The Homiletic Novels and Their Authors
- Appendix B The Parsonage Romances and Their Authors
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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- Religion and Sexuality in American Literature , pp. 253 - 269Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992