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Tomorrow's Parties - Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover, New)
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Tomorrow's Parties - Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America (Hardcover, New)
Series: America and the Long 19th Century
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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 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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