"Antimasonic Satire, Sodomy, and Eighteenth-Century Masculinity in the "Boston Evening-Post
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3473408 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas A Foster (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 171 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3491500 |
| OpenAlex | W1991029008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
N January 7, 1751, readers of the Boston Evening-Post found a full-column poetic letter, entitled In Defence of Masonry, occupying half of the front page. At the top was one of the earliest engravings accompanying a poem to appear in a newspaper. It depicted two men, one bent over, the other penetrating him with a trunnel, or wooden spike. Here graphic imagery with sodomitical overtones accompanied stanzas containing phallic references and allusions to homoerotic group activities. Sodomy was still a capital crime in eighteenth-century Massachusetts-could symbolic sodomy have been a source of emasculating satire?1
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| Citations per year | 0.37 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2023 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |