The Horrors of the Half-Known Life
Subtitle: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century America
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 14, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780415925006
First sentence: Alexis de Toqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were so moved by the story of a French couple's flight the American West that they made a pilgrimage to Frenchman's Island in Lake Onieda, where the couple had found refuge.