Tomorrow's parties : sex and the untimely in Nineteenth-Century America

Publication Data

• Title Tomorrow's parties : sex and the untimely in Nineteenth-Century America
• Author Peter Coviello
• Publisher New York University Press
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location New York
• Language English

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 aarriage 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.

Topics

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

Tomorrow's parties : sex and the untimely in Nineteenth-Century America by Peter Coviello. ISBN 9780814790304. Published by New York University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.