Abstract
In Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature (CH, Feb'06, 43-3254), Coviello (Bowdoin College) offered a rereading of canonical 19th-century authors, focused on the problematic role that race played in constructing a sense of Americanness. Coviello returns with an even more ambitious reexamination of 19th-century literature, focused on exploring what counted as sexuality during this period.