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Tomorrow's parties : sex and the untimely in nineteenth-century America / Peter Coviello.

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Main Author:	Coviello, Peter
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, ©2013.
Series:	America and the long 19th century.
Subjects:	American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. Sex in literature. Interpersonal relations in literature.

Table of Contents:

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.