Tomorrow's parties : sex and the untimely in nineteenth-century America / Peter Coviello.
In nineteenth-century America - before the scandalous trial of Oscar Wilde, before the public emergence of categories like homo- and heterosexuality - what were the parameters of sex? Did people characterize their sexuality as a set of bodily practices, a form of identification, or a mode of relatio...
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[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the unspeakable past
- Disappointment, or, Thoreau in love
- Whitman at war
- Coda : a little destiny
- Islanded : Jewett and the uncompanioned life
- What does the polygamist want? : Frederick Douglass, Joseph Smith, and marriage at the edges of the human
- Coda : unceremoniousness
- The tenderness of beasts : Hawthorne at Blithedale
- Made for love : Olive Chancellor, Henry James, and the Bostonians
- Coda : the turn.