Viragoes, Spermatophagy, and Racial Degeneration: Cultural Contraventions in Josephine Butler’s Meditations on the Levite’s Woman

The exponents of fin-de-siècle literary artistry painted New Woman a lascivious man-eating beast whose emasculating initiatives would check Western European ascent to civilization’s apogee. Unfettered by tradition, her intemperate spirit, blind to the fine(r) things of a "higher" cultural...

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Main Author: Lee, Bernon (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2022
In: Journal of the bible and its reception
Year: 2022, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 125-159
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bible. Judge 19 / Reception / Butler, Josephine Elizabeth 1828-1906 / Woman / Race
IxTheo Classification:FD Contextual theology
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B nineteenth-century literature
B nineteenth-century scientific discourse
B nineteenth-century biblical interpretation
B Josephine Butler
B Judges 19
B New Woman
B racial degeneration
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