Tomorrow's Parties : Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America / Peter Coviello.
2013
PS217.I52 C69 2013
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Tomorrow's Parties : Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America / Peter Coviello.
Author
Coviello, Peter, author.
ISBN
9780814717424
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814717400.001.0001 doi
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PS217.I52 C69 2013
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810.93538
Summary
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.
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America and the Long 19th Century ; ; 1
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE Lost Futures
1 Disappointment, or, Thoreau in Love
2 Whitman at War
Coda
PART TWO To Speak of the Woe That Is in Marriage
3 Islanded
4 What Does the Polygamist Want?
Coda
PART THREE Speech and Silence: Reckonings of the Queer Future
5 The Tenderness of Beasts
6 Made for Love
Coda
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE Lost Futures
1 Disappointment, or, Thoreau in Love
2 Whitman at War
Coda
PART TWO To Speak of the Woe That Is in Marriage
3 Islanded
4 What Does the Polygamist Want?
Coda
PART THREE Speech and Silence: Reckonings of the Queer Future
5 The Tenderness of Beasts
6 Made for Love
Coda
Notes
Index
About the Author