Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Reading and Recreation in Antebellum America
Part 1. City Crime
Introduction. City Reading
Chapter 1. Theorizing Disorder
Chapter 2. The Erotics of Space
Chapter 3. Narrating Excess
Part 2. Bodily Style
Introduction. Reading Bodies
Chapter 4. Cultural Diet
Chapter 5. Accusing Victims
Chapter 6. Men in Public
Part 3. The Poetics of Intimacy
Introduction. Intimacies of Disorder
Chapter 7. Social Poetics
Chapter 8. Sex and the Police
Chapter 9. The Joys of Seduction
Chapter 10. The Mysteries of Chumship
Afterword. The Trouble with Men
Selected Bibliography
Index