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

Coviello, Peter.

Tomorrow's parties sex and the untimely in nineteenth-century America / Peter Coviello. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) - America and the long 19th century .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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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American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
Sex in literature.
Interpersonal relations in literature.


Electronic Books.

PS217 / .T666 2013