American Sexual Histories
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American Sexual Histories is a collection of fourteen articles investigating human sexuality in America from the colonial period to the modern day. The essays reflect the many ways historians analyze sexuality and sexual trends, and explore such topics as contraception, interracial sex, "free love," hysteria, homosexuality, reproductive issues, and the sexual revolution. The volume shows how the evolution of sexuality in America is a product of ongoing negotiation of moral values and shifting political and economic circumstances. Arranged chronologically, the chapters each contain an introduction and one major article, plus supporting documents that illustrate the time, place, and issues covered by the main article. Editor Elizabeth Reis provides a general introduction, questions for study and discussion, and further reading lists that make this an ideal collection for students studying the history of sexuality in America. Hellish hymns from Amphetamine Heaven...These people are witty and they are grand, they do terrible things and make awful remarks. Ombine is an East Village prima donna, a hoarder of gossip. He is filthy, but he is funny....The characters of "a" represent the bizarre new class, untermenschen's prefigurations of the technological millenium. -- The New York Review of Books
PrefaceAcknowledgementsTable of DatesFurther ReadingTimbuctoo1The Idealist8From Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830)9Mariana9Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind11Song ['A spirit haunts the year's last hours']17A Character18The Poet's Mind19Nothing Will Die20All Things Will Die22The Dying Swan23The Kraken25From Poems (1832)26The Lady of Shalott26Mariana in the South31Fatima34Oenone36The Palace of Art44The Hesperides53The Lotos-Eaters57'Hark! the dogs howl!'63'This Nature full of hints and mysteries'64'Over the dark world flies the wind'64Oh! that 'twere possible'65From Poems (1842)69The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]69Morte d'Arthur70The Gardener's Daughter79St Simeon Stylites88Ulysses94Locksley Hall96The Two Voices104'Move eastward, happy earth, and leave'118'Break, break, break'119From Poems (1846)120The Golden Year120From The Princess (1847)123'As thro' the land at eve we went'123'Sweet and low, sweet and low'123'The splendour falls on castle walls'124'Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean'125'Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea'126'Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white'126'Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height'127Lines ['Here often, when a child, I lay reclined')129In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850)130From Poems (1851)225Edwin Morris225The Eagle229From Maud, and Other Poems (1855)231Maud231Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington278To the Rev. F.D. Maurice286Will288The Charge of the Light Brigade289From Enoch Arden (1864)291The Grandmother291Tithonus296In the Valley of Cauteretz298On a Mourner299From The Holy Grail and Other Poems (1869)301Northern Farmer, New Style301'Flower in the crannied wall'304Lucretius304From Tiresias and Other Poems (1885)313To E. Fitzgerald313Tiresias316The Ancient Sage321Prefatory Poem to My Brother's Sonnets329'Frater Ave atque Vale'331From Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)332Locksley Hall Sixty Years After332From Demeter and Other Poems (1889)345Demeter and Persephone345Crossing the Bar349Notes351Index of Titles373Index of First Lines375
