Coviello, Peter

Tomorrow's Parties

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ISBN 13:
9780814717417
author:
Coviello, Peter
format:
Paperback
publisher:
NYU Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2013
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 centimetres
Genre:
Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Gay Studies,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£25.36

Description

Dazzling intelligence radiates from this book, yielding a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in 19th-century America. Peter Coviello carefully listens and brilliantly analyzes the flickerings and meanderings of sex before it solidified into the sexuality we know today. Coviello explores the varied forms sex could take in the lead-up to its modern codification, examining authors whose places in American history range from canonical to improbable. He considers what might have been lost in the ascension of new taxonomies of sex: the extravagant and untimely ways of imagining the domain of sex that have sunken into muteness or illegibility. By uncovering these lost forms of imagination, Coviello provides a nuanced understanding of 19th-century American sexuality. This book is a valuable contribution to the field of gay studies and literary criticism, offering insights into the complex and multifaceted nature of human desire.

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