Geological Fantasies, Haunting Anachronies: Eros, Time, and History in Harriet Prescott Spofford's "The Amber Gods"

Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality

“…Dana Luciano, following Deleuze and Guattari, describes this sort of a sexuality as "molecular": "The molecular names a level on which 'sexuality' breaks free not simply of the obligation to be reproductive (that is, of children) but also of the perpetual reproduction of a field marked out by the distinction between idealized and deviant sexualities, that lockeddown game of opposition in which manifestations of queerness as Other ultimately come to bolster the normativity they supposedly subvert." 25 As a model for social change, Jewett's concept of an intelligent society points away from projects that would separate normativity from anti-normativity or presume to know in advance what might differentiate one from the other. Indeed, at her most utopic, she may be imagining a world in which these distinctions lose their explanatory power all together.…”