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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Politics of Solitary Pleasures -- 1. Autonomy as Deviance: Sixteenth-Century Images of Witches and Prostitutes -- 2. Playing with Herself: Feminine Sexuality and Aesthetic Indifference -- 3. Forbidden Pleasures: Enlightenment Literature of Sexual Advice -- 4. Phantastical Pollutions: The Public Threat of Private Vice in France -- 5. Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl -- 6. The Social Evil, the Solitary Vice, and Pouring Tea -- 7. "The Roots of the Orchis, the Iuli of Chestnuts": The Odor of Male Solitude -- 8. "Pomegranate-Flowers": The Phantasmic Productions of Late-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Women Poets -- 9. Fragments of a Poetics: Bonnetain and Roth -- 10. Can Robinson Crusoe Find True Happiness (Alone)? Beyond the Genitals and History on the Island of Hope -- 11. Coming in Handy: The J/O Spectacle and the Gay Male Subject in Almodóvar -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the "Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem" era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt, these years look back to the antislavery movement and forward to the artistic flowering and racial self-consciousness of the Harlem Renaissance.Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem offers fresh perspectives on the literary and cultural achievements of African American men and women during this critically neglected, though vitally important, period of our nation's past. Using a wide range of disciplinary approaches, the sixteen scholars gathered here offer both a reappraisal and celebration of African American cultural production during these influential decades. Alongside discussions of political and artistic icons such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and James Weldon Johnson are essays revaluing figures such as the writers Paul and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the New England painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, and Georgia-based activists Lucy Craft Laney and Emmanuel King Love.Contributors explore an array of forms from fine art to anti-lynching drama, from sermons to ragtime and blues, and from dialect pieces and early black musical theater to serious fiction.Contributors include: Frances Smith Foster, Carla L. Peterson, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Barbara Ryan, Robert M. Dowling, Barbara A. Baker, Paula Bernat Bennett, Philip J. Kowalski, Nikki L. Brown, Koritha A. Mitchell, Margaret Crumpton Winter, Rhonda Reymond, and Andrew J. Scheiber