"The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories / / ed. by Christopher Looby.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Alcott, Louisa May,; Bierce, Ambrose,; Cather, Willa,; Chesnutt, Charles W.,; Chopin, Kate,; Far, Sui Sin,; Freeman, Mary Wilkins,; Harte, Bret,; Hartmann, Sadakichi,; Jewett, Sarah Orne,; Knapp, Samuel L.,; Looby, Christopher,; Melville, Herman,; Stoddard, Charles Warren,; Stoddard, Elizabeth,; Taylor, Bayard,; Thanet, Octave,; Whitman, Walt,; Woolson, Constance Fenimore,
• HerausgeberIn: Looby, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century—the century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various taxonomized sexual identities) were invented—is the period when American short stories were invented, and when they were the queerest."—Christopher Looby, from the I...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Queer Short Stories in Nineteenth-Century America
• Editor’s Note
• Part I. Queer Places
• The Child’s Champion (1841)
• A South-Sea Idyl (1869)
• The Haunted Valley (1871)
• Felipa (1876)
• My Lorelei: A Heidelberg Romance (1880)
• Part II. Queer Genders
• The Bachelors (1836)
• The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman (1857)
• Two Friends (1887)
• How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson (c. 1900–1903)
• Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament (1905)
• Part III. Queer Attachments
• Twin-Love (1871)
• Out of the Deeps (1872)
• In the Tules (1895)
• Martha’s Lady (1897)
• The Heart’s Desire (1908)
• Part IV. Queer Things
• I and My Chimney (1856)
• The Candy Country (1885)
• Dave’s Neckliss (1889)
• Schopenhauer in the Air (1894)
• Lilacs (1896)
• Notes
• Acknowledgments