Tomorrow's Parties : Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coviello, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > (1804-1864)
Whitman, Walt, > (1819-1892)
Relations humaines > Dans la litterature.
Sexualite > Dans la litterature.
Intimite (psychologie) > Dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literatur
Erotik
Sex in literature.
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.
American literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Relations humaines dans la litterature.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Intimite dans la litterature.
Gender Identity > history.
Marriage > history
Homosexuality > history
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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