Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press | pages: 282 | 2005 | ISBN: 0877458847 | PDF | 14,2 mb
Intricate Relations charts the development of the novel in and beyond the early republic in relation to these two thematic and intricately connected centers: sexuality and economics. By reading fiction written by Americans between 1789 and 1814 alongside medical theory, political and economic tracts, and pedagogical literature of all kinds, Karen Weyler re-creates and illuminates the larger, sometimes opaque, cultural context in which novels were written, published, and read.