Books by Peter Coviello

Vineland is hardly anyone's favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked book opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon's writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history.

Provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in nineteenth-century America before it solidified into the sexuality we know