Tomorrow's parties: sex and the untimely in nineteenth-century America

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Unspeakable Past Part One Lost Futures1 Disappointment, or, Thoreau in Love 2 Whitman at War Coda: A Little Destiny Part Two To Speak of the Woe That Is in Marriage3 Islanded: Jewett and the Uncompanioned Life 4 What Does the Polygamist Want? Frederick Douglass, Joseph Smith, and Marriage at the Edges of the Human Coda: Unceremoniousness Part Three Speech and Silence: Reckonings of the Queer FutureThe Tenderness of Beasts: Hawthorne at Blithedale 6 Made for Love: Olive Chancellor, Henry James, and The Bostonians Coda: The Turn Notes Index About the Author