Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Unspeakable Past
Part One Lost Futures
1 Disappointment, or, Thoreau in Love
2 Whitman at War
Coda: A Little Destiny
Part Two To Speak of the Woe That Is in Marriage
3 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 Future
The Tenderness of Beasts: Hawthorne at Blithedale
6 Made for Love: Olive Chancellor, Henry James,
and The Bostonians
Coda: The Turn
Notes
Index
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