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Format: XIII, 252 S.

ISBN: 978-0-8147-1740-0 , 978-0-8147-1741-7 , 978-0-8147-1742-4 , 978-0-8147-9030-4

Series Statement: America and the long 19th century

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: Literatur ; Erotik

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780814717424

Series Statement: America and the Long 19th Century ; 1

Content: Honorable Mention for the 2014 MLA Alan Bray Memorial Award Finalist for the 2013 LAMBDA LGBT Studies Book AwardIn 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 relation? Was it even something an individual could be said to possess? What could be counted as sexuality?Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in the period before it solidified into the sexuality we know, or think we know. Taking up authors whose places in the American history of sexuality range from the canonical to the improbable—from Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, and James to Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and Mormon founder Joseph Smith—Peter Coviello delineates the varied forms sex could take in the lead-up to its captivation by the codings of “modern” sexuality. While telling the story of nineteenth-century American sexuality, he considers what might have been lostin the ascension of these new taxonomies of sex: all the extravagant, untimely ways of imagining the domain of sex that, under the modern regime of sexuality, have sunken into muteness or illegibility. Taking queer theorizations of temporality in challenging new directions, Tomorrow’s Parties assembles an archive of broken-off, uncreated futures—futures that would not come to be. Through them, Coviello fundamentally reorients our readings of erotic being and erotic possibility in the literature of nineteenth-century America.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1 Disappointment, or, Thoreau in Love -- , 2 Whitman at War -- , Coda -- , 3 Islanded -- , 4 What Does the Polygamist Want? -- , Coda -- , 5 The Tenderness of Beasts -- , 6 Made for Love -- , Coda -- , Notes -- , Index -- , About the Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9780814717424

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URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814717424

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Format: 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages)

ISBN: 9780814717424 (e-book)

Series Statement: America and the long 19th century

Note: 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.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource.

ISBN: 9780814717424 (ebook) :

Series Statement: America and the long 19th century

Content: This work provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in nineteenth-century America before it solidified into the sexuality we know.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780814717400

Language: English

URL: New York scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource (270 p.)

ISBN: 0-8147-1742-X

Series Statement: America and the Long 19th Century ; 1

Content: Honorable Mention for the 2014 MLA Alan Bray Memorial Award Finalist for the 2013 LAMBDA LGBT Studies Book Award 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 relation? Was it even something an individual could be said to possess? What could be counted as sexuality? Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in the period before it solidified into the sexuality we know, or think we know. Taking up authors whose places in the American history of sexuality range from the canonical to the improbable—from Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, and James to Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and Mormon founder Joseph Smith—Peter Coviello delineates the varied forms sex could take in the lead-up to its captivation by the codings of “modern” sexuality. While telling the story of nineteenth-century American sexuality, he considers what might have been lost in the ascension of these new taxonomies of sex: all the extravagant, untimely ways of imagining the domain of sex that, under the modern regime of sexuality, have sunken into muteness or illegibility. Taking queer theorizations of temporality in challenging new directions, Tomorrow’s Parties assembles an archive of broken-off, uncreated futures—futures that would not come to be. Through them, Coviello fundamentally reorients our readings of erotic being and erotic possibility in the literature of nineteenth-century America.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1 Disappointment, or, Thoreau in Love -- , 2 Whitman at War -- , Coda -- , 3 Islanded -- , 4 What Does the Polygamist Want? -- , Coda -- , 5 The Tenderness of Beasts -- , 6 Made for Love -- , Coda -- , Notes -- , Index -- , About the Author , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8147-1741-1

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8147-1740-3

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9780814717424