Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America

by Peter Coviello

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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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814717411
• ISBN13: 9780814717417
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"