Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Emory Elliott; 1. Introduction: The Puritan Origins of American Sex, Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, and Magdalena J. Zaborowska; 2. Wigglesworth, Mather, Starr: Witch-hunts and General Wickedness in Public, Ed Ingebretsen; 3. A Sodom Withing: Historicizing Puritan Homoerotics in the Diary of Michael Wigglesworth, Nicholas F. Radel; 4. "Remember Me": The Wonders of an Invisible World: Sex, Patriarcy, and Paranoia in Early America, Boris Vejdovsky; 5. Uncleanliness is Next to Godliness: Sexuality, Salvation, and the Early American Womenโs Execution Narrative, Jodi Schorb; 6. The Puritan Eye-Ball, or, Sexing the Transcendent, Renรฉe L. Bergland; 7. Ejaculating Tongues: Poe, Mather, and the Jewish Penis, Gustavus Stadler; 8. Now You Shall See How a Slave was Made a Man: Gendering Frederick Douglassโs Struggles with Christianity, Darryl Dickson-Carr; 9. Enslaving Passions: White Male Sexuality and the Evasion of Race, Russ Castronovo; 10. The other Womanโs Sphere: Nuns, Prostitutes, and the Medicalization of Middle-Class Domesticity, Tracy Fessenden; 11. Christian Maidens and Heathen Monks: Oratorical Seduction at the 1893 Worldโs Parliament of Religions, Carrie Tirado Bramen; 12. Americanization of a "Queer Fellow": Performning Jewishness and Sexuality in Abraham Cahanโs The Rise of David Levinsky, with a Footnote on the (Monica)Lewinskyโed Nation, Magdalena Zaborowska; 13. Desert of the Heart: Jane Ruleโs Puritan Outing, Margaret Soenser Breen; 14. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Gardner, Robert Morace; 15. "Down Here in Paradise": Toni Morrisonโs Americas, Judith Wilt; Notes on Contributors; Index