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.