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Dutch literature --- Dutch literature --- Sex in literature

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Although sometimes religion and sexuality are treated as an aberrant theme in American literary and religious history, American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to John Updike have been fascinated with the connection between religious and sexual experience. Through the voice of American fiction, Religion and Sexuality in American Literature examines the relations of body and spirit (religion and sexuality). Using both canonical and non-canonical fiction, Ann-Janine Morey examines novels dealing with the ministry as the medium wherein so many of the tensions of religion and sexuality are dramatised and then moves to contemporary novels that deal with moral and religious issues through metaphor. Based upon a sophisticated and selective application of metaphor theory, deconstruction and feminist postmodernism, Morey argues that while American fiction has replicated many traditional animosities, there are also some rather surprising resources here for commonality between men and women if we acknowledge and understand the intimate relationship between language and physical life.

American literature --- History and criticism --- Sex --- Religious aspects --- Sex in literature --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Religion and literature --- Sex in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects. --- Sex (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- Sex and religion --- Phallicism

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Epic poetry, Greek --- Sex customs --- Sex in literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Homerus --- Knowledge --- Manners and customs. --- Greece --- Social life and customs.

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"Esteem Enlivened by Desire illuminates" (and celebrates) the ideal of lasting love from antiquity to the high Renaissance. Love that leads to marriage is a relatively recent "invention," or so critics and historians often say. But in this remarkable survey, Jean H. Hagstrum argues that long-term commitment formed of friendship and passion is one of Western culture's oldest and richest concepts. Hagstrum looks mainly at depictions of love in art and literature, works of the imagination that reflect social reality but also often transcend it to challenge restrictive codes and open up new possibilities for human nature. Among these possibilities, the association of esteem with sexual desire is one of the most invigorating that artists and thinkers have ever addressed. Tracing this motif through many different kinds of expression --from the Homeric epics, the Oresteia, Augustine's Confessions to the stories of Ovid, the Decameron, the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare-- Hagstrum also illuminates a number of related themes, including other forms of relationship, from friendship to lust; marriage for political ends; liaisons with the same sex; and the presence of passion in religious commitment.

Marriage in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Marriage in art. --- Love in art. --- Sex in art. --- Love in art --- Love in literature --- Marriage in art --- Marriage in literature --- Sex in art --- Sex in literature --- Sex in the arts --- Sexuality in art

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Examining ideas about masturbation, female sexuality, the family, and post-Calvinist religion that shaped the readership of popular woman's fiction, To Kiss the Chastening Rod shows that passionlessness was the privileged theme of a pervasive discourse which sought to exert social control through the rigorous repression, minute supervision, and covert cultivation of sexuality.

American fiction --- Domestic fiction, American --- Families in literature --- Incest in literature --- Sex in literature --- Women and literature --- Family in literature --- American literature --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- History --- Women authors --- History and criticism.