Settler common sense: queerness and everyday colonialism in the American Renaissance

Introduction

1. Ordinary Life and the Ethics of Occupation

2. Romancing the State of Nature: Speculation, Regeneration, and the Maine Frontier in House of the Seven Gables

3. Loving Oneself Like a Nation: Sovereign Selfhood and the Autoerotics of Wilderness in Walden

4. Dreaming of Urban Dispersion: Aristocratic Genealogy and Indian Rurality in Pierre.