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- American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition
- American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Fractures and Continuities
- Part II Forms and Formats
- Chapter 9 Romance
- Chapter 10 Theater
- Chapter 11 Popular Poetry
- Chapter 12 Sentimentality
- Chapter 13 African American Print Culture
- Chapter 14 Sexuality in Print
- Chapter 15 Seriality
- Chapter 16 Unoriginality
- Part III Authors and Figures
- Index
Chapter 14 - Sexuality in Print
from Part II - Forms and Formats
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2022
- American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition
- American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Fractures and Continuities
- Part II Forms and Formats
- Chapter 9 Romance
- Chapter 10 Theater
- Chapter 11 Popular Poetry
- Chapter 12 Sentimentality
- Chapter 13 African American Print Culture
- Chapter 14 Sexuality in Print
- Chapter 15 Seriality
- Chapter 16 Unoriginality
- Part III Authors and Figures
- Index
Summary
The decades between 1830 and 1850 in the Northeastern United States gave rise to what historians have called the antebellum print explosion. As sexuality finds its way into print in this period, it is represented and debated simultaneously by and for different people, with different meanings, and under different auspices. Its genres span a number of antebellum audiences, including moral reform directories, “flash press” weeklies, “fancy books,” city mysteries, sentimental novels, slave narratives, medical literature, phrenological writing, and poetry. The work of the present essay is to survey some of these different examples of sexuality in print and show how they nuance our historical understanding of sexuality and its relationship to print in the antebellum period.
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- American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860 , pp. 235 - 252Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022