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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Unspeakable Past 1 part one Lost Futures 1 Disappointment, or, Thoreau in Love 29 2 Whitman at War 48 Coda: A Little Destiny 64 part two To Speak of the Woe That Is in Marriage 3 Islanded: Jewett and the Uncompanioned Life 79 4 What Does the Polygamist Want? Frederick Douglass, Joseph Smith, and Marriage at the Edges of the Human 104 Coda: Unceremoniousness 129 part three Speech and Silence: Reckonings of the Queer Future 5 The Tenderness of Beasts: Hawthorne at Blithedale 145 6 Made for Love: Olive Chancellor, Henry James, and The Bostonians 168 Coda: The Turn 190 Notes 207 Index 247 About the Author 253 This page intentionally left blank ...

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