"The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories / Christopher Looby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Looby, Christopher.

Series:

Q19: the queer American nineteenth century.

Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century.

American literature.

Genre:

Fiction

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The stories gathered here explore the vagaries of sexual desire, gender identity, and erotic attachment, revealing the surprising queerness of nineteenth-century American literature.

Contents:

Introduction : queer short stories in nineteenth-century America / Christopher Looby

The child's champion (1841) / Walt Whitman

A south-sea idyl (1869) / Charles Warren Stoddard

The haunted valley (1871) / Ambrose Bierce

Felipa (1876) / Constance Fenimore Woolson

My Lorelei : a Heidelberg romance (1880) / Octave Thanet

The bachelors (1836) / Samuiel L. Knapp

The man who thought himself a woman (1857) / Anonymous

Two friends (1887) / Mary Wilkins Freeman

How Nancy Jackson married Kate Wilson (c. 1900-1903) / Mark Twain

Paul's case : a study in temperament (1905) / Willa Cather

Twin-love (1871) / Bayard Taylor

Out of the deeps (1872) / Elizabeth Stoddard

In the tules (1895) / Bert Harte

Martha's lady (1897) / Sarah Orne Jewett

The heart's desire (1908) / Sui Sin Far

I and my chimney (1856) / Herman Melville

The candy country (1885) / Louisa May Alcott

Dave's neckliss (1889) / Charles W. Chesnutt

Schopenhauer in the air (1894) / Sadakichi Hartmann

Lilacs (1896) / Kate Chopin.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Apr. 18, 2017)

ISBN:

9780812293357

0812293355

OCLC:

984651017