Review: Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America

Nathan Wolff, Assistant Professor of English at Tufts University, is the author of “Emotional Insanity, Cynical Reason, and The Gilded Age,” which appeared in ELH in 2013. His essay “Pobrecito, Alessandro: Sentiment and Sovereignty in Ramona” recently appeared in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. His current book project, titled “Fits of Reason,” explores the affective intensity of the rationalist reform novels of the postbellum period.