03186nam 2200673 a 450 991045219870332120210721181725.01-58729-520-2(CKB)1000000000467084(EBL)843132(OCoLC)82772443(SSID)ssj0000182257(PQKBManifestationID)11167753(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000182257(PQKBWorkID)10167016(PQKB)10293748(MiAaPQ)EBC843132(MdBmJHUP)muse12544(Au-PeEL)EBL843132(CaPaEBR)ebr10354622(EXLCZ)99100000000046708420040312d2004 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrIntricate relations[electronic resource] sexual and economic desire in American fiction, 1789-1814 /Karen A. WeylerIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20041 online resource (282 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-884-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-259) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Intricate Relations; 1. A Manner Unquestionably More Agreeable: The Politics, Aesthetics, and Praxis of Epistolary Fiction; 2. Unlawful Embraces: Sexual Transgression, Madness, and the Ascendancy of Medical and Narrative Discourse; 3. A Speculating Spirit: Economic Anxieties and Opportunities in Early American Fiction; 4. Gentleman Strangers and Dangerous Deceptions; Epilogue. Looking Forward to Antebellum Fiction; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIntricate 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 recreates and illuminates the larger, sometimes opaque, cultural context in which novels were written, published, and read.In 1799, the novelist Charles Brockden Brown used the evocative phrase "intricate relations" toAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismEconomics in literatureSexEconomic aspectsProperty in literatureDesire in literatureSex in literatureElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Economics in literature.SexEconomic aspects.Property in literature.Desire in literature.Sex in literature.813/.2093553Weyler Karen Ann966858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452198703321Intricate relations2194402UNINA