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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coviello, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Colección:America and the long 19th century.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.