19th Century: Bibliography

Articles and Books on Gender, Sexuality, and Intimacy in the U.S. in the 19th Century

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Cohen, Patricia Cline; Timothy J. Gilfoyle, and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz in association with the American Antiquarian Society. Flash Men, Jolly Fellows, and Fancy Books: Nineteenth-Century New York, the Nation, and Sexuality in Print. (2008).

Dennis, Donna. The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 278 pp., 49 halftones, 2 figures, graph, timeline, flash press excerpts, appendix, notes, index, $50 cloth, $20 (paper). (2009).

Hijar, Katherine. Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 376 pp., 26 halftones, appendices, notes, index, $55 cloth Katherine Hijar, Journal of Urban History. 2011; 37:451-459. [PDF]

Katz, Jonathan Ned. Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Richard Stott. Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. vii + 386 pp., 24 halftones, appendix, notes, index, $29.95 cloth. (2009).