BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.7//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news53@english.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180314T163332 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180327T141500 SUMMARY:Sexual Impulses in 1799 DESCRIPTION:Charles Brockden Brown's unfinished novel Memoirs of Stephen Ca lvert (1799-1800) is an important document in the history of sexuality. Fo r one thing\, it has the first identifiable sodomite in U.S. fiction. But more importantly\, it has characters who are subject to what the novel cal ls "sexual impulses" (see the penultimate page of the first serialized ins tallment)\, a virtually unprecedented phrase in English language usage at the time. What's more\, it engages the intricate relationships between rac e\, slavery\, and sexuality in explosive ways--which may be one reason Bro wn was not able to complete the novel. Perhaps most importantly\, it is a novel that theorizes the emergence of modern sexuality (as Foucault famous ly framed it) as an interiorized disposition of the individual person. It thus registers an historical event--the emergence of sexuality as such--in a way that is only partially visible in other early American documents an d events like Franklin's Autobiography\, Alexander Hamilton's sex scandal\ , Foster's The Coquette\, or other novels by Brown. X-ALT-DESC:
Charles Brockden Brown's unfinished novel Memoirs of St ephen Calvert (1799-1800) is an important document in the history of s exuality. For one thing\, it has the first identifiable sodomite in U.S. f iction. But more importantly\, it has characters who are subject to what t he novel calls "\;sexual impulses"\; (see the penultimate page of the first serialized installment)\, a virtually unprecedented phrase in En glish language usage at the time. What's more\, it engages the intricate r elationships between race\, slavery\, and sexuality in explosive ways--whi ch may be one reason Brown was not able to complete the novel. Perhaps mos t importantly\, it is a novel that theorizes the emergence of modern sexua lity (as Foucault famously framed it) as an interiorized disposition of th e individual person. It thus registers an historical event--the emergence of sexuality as such--in a way that is only partially visible in other ear ly American documents and events like Franklin's Autobiography\, Al exander Hamilton's sex scandal\, Foster's The Coquette\, or other n ovels by Brown.\n DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180327T160000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR