TAMING LUST: CRIMES AGAINST NATURE IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC
Book ID/图书代码： 13567914B70484
English Summary/英文概要： 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 to the same punishment. Prior to these criminal trials, neither Massachusetts nor Connecticut had executed anyone for bestiality in over a century. Though there are no overt connections between the two episodes, the similarities of their particulars are strange and striking. Historians Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown delve into the specifics to determine what larger social, political, or religious forces could have compelled New England courts to condemn two octogenarians for sexual misbehavior typically associated with much younger men.
The stories of John Farrell and Gideon Washburn are less about the two old men than New England officials who, riding the rough waves of modernity, returned to the severity of their ancestors. The political upheaval of the Revolution and the new republic created new kinds of cultural experience—both exciting and frightening—at a moment when New England farmers and village elites were contesting long-standing assumptions about divine creation and the social order. Ben-Atar and Brown offer a rare and vivid perspective on anxieties about sexual and social deviance in the early republic.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1796年，革命热情减弱，理性时代开启，一个85岁的美国马萨诸塞州医生因为兽奸被判处绞刑。三年后，七十英里远的地方，一个83岁的康涅狄格州的农民因相同的罪行被定罪，并被判同样的处罚。在此之前，无论是马萨诸塞州还是康涅狄格州，在过去的一个世纪里都没有对人兽性交定过罪。虽然上述两个案例之间没有明显的联系，但其资料的相似性是奇怪和惊人的。历史学家多伦S•本•阿塔尔和理查德•D•布朗钻研细节以确定哪些较大的社会，政治或宗教势力可能迫使新英格兰法院谴责两位八旬老人与更年轻的男人之间的不端性行为。
约翰•法雷尔和基甸•沃什伯恩这两个新英格兰地区的官员的故事丝毫不亚于两个老人，他们踏着现代性的惊涛骇浪，回到了他们祖先的严重程度。革命的政治动荡和新的共和国创造了各种新的文化体验——既令人兴奋又令人恐惧——某一时刻新英格兰农民和乡村精英都对神的创造和社会秩序的长期假设提出了质疑。本•阿塔尔和布朗以难得的和生动的视角观察了共和国早期性和社会越轨行为的焦虑。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“《抑制欲望》展示了一个对历史重建的了不起的壮举。一方面它揭示了十八世纪晚期的新英格兰对兽性高度异常审判的纠缠的根源。另一方面，它展现了整个时代的社会，政治和性文化的广阔全景。这些配合对象的告知写作被强有力的构建，优雅的表达，并夹杂着迷人的细节。”——约翰•达蒙斯，《异教徒学校：共和国早期希望与背叛的故事》的作者
"Taming Lust performs a remarkable double feat of historical reconstruction. On the one hand, it uncovers the tangled roots of a pair of highly anomalous trials for bestiality in late eighteenth-century New England. On the other, it unfolds a broad panorama of the social, political, and sexual culture of an entire era. These paired objectives inform a writing that is strongly constructed, elegantly expressed, and larded with fascinating detail."—John Demos, author of The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
About the Author/作者介绍： 多伦•S•本•阿塔尔是福特汉姆大学的历史教授，以及《商业秘密：知识产权盗版和美国的工业力量起源》的作者
理查德•D•布朗是康涅狄格大学董事会特聘名誉历史教授，以及《以法莲•惠勒的绞刑：美国早期强奸，乱伦与正义的故事》的合著者。
Doron S. Ben-Atar is Professor of History at Fordham University and author of Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power. Richard D. Brown is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut and coauthor of The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America.
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