from Bedford/st Martins (February 6, 2006)
9780312412265 |
details & prices | 208 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.46 lbs | List price $19.20
About: With this colorful collection of documents, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz overturns the monolithic picture of Victorian sexual repression to reveal four contending views at play during the antebellum period: earthy American folk wisdom, the anti-flesh teachings of evangelical Christianity, moral reform grounded in science, and the utopian free love movement.