Tomorrow's parties : sex and the untimely in nineteenth-century America / Peter Coviello.

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2013], ©2013.

xiii, 252 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-245) and index.

Disappointment, or, Thoreau in love -- Whitman at war -- Coda : a little destiny -- Islanded : Jewett and the uncompanioned life -- What does the polygamist want? : Frederick Douglass, Joseph Smith, and aarriage at the edges of the human -- Coda : unceremoniousness -- The tenderness of beasts : Hawthorne at Blithedale -- Made for love : Olive Chancellor, Henry James, and the Bostonians -- Coda : the turn.