{"product_id":"glances-backward-an-anthology-of-american-homosexual-writing-1830-1920-9781551117287","title":"Glances Backward: An Anthology of American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlances Backward\u003c\/em\u003e brings together in one volume a broad selection of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American writings about gay male love, including love stories, Westerns, ghostly tales, poetry, drama, essays, letters, and memoirs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of these works, such as \u003cem\u003eThe Cult of the Purple Rose\u003c\/em\u003e, the story of a gay alliance at 1890s Harvard, are reprinted here for the first time since their original publication. Henry Blake Fuller’s “Allisonian Classical Academy” has until now been available only in manuscript form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to works by lesser-known authors, selections by Henry James, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Horatio Alger, Jr., Jack London, and Willa Cather are included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGlances Backward\u003c\/em\u003e breaks new ground in gay studies. The anthology explores the full range of writing about gay males from before the Civil War to just after the First World War. In its treatment of largely unknown and inaccessible texts—from overwrought expressions of romantic friendship to modern diatribes against homosexuals as poor insurance risks—it offers the best scholarly introduction to the period when homosexuality was just finding its voice. It is a landmark text, necessary not only for queer scholars but for any student of American literature.” — David Van Leer, University of California, Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an astonishing array of writing about same-sex relations. James Gifford is a scholar who leaves no archival page unturned, and he has put together an anthology that all readers can turn to for discovery, delight, and a deeper appreciation of American history and culture.” — David Bergman, Towson University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A recognizably ‘gay’ American culture is a lot older, and a lot richer, than we thought—and here is the archive to prove it! This anthology brings together for the first time the major and minor voices of queer American literature, who together represent an astonishing range of experience, hope, and desire.” — Eric Savoy, Universite de Montreal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: \u003cem\u003eTHE INTERSEXES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Prime-Stevenson\u003cbr\u003eFrom “Out of the Sun” (1913)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Intersexes\u003c\/em\u003e (1908)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Two-Spirit People\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlim Curly\u003cbr\u003eFrom “The Mothway Myth” (recorded 1930)\u003cbr\u003eJohn Tanner\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eA Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner\u003c\/em\u003e (1830)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Catlin\u003cbr\u003e“Dance to the Berdashe” (1844)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Luck, Pluck, and a Kindly Mentor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalt Whitman\u003cbr\u003e“The Child’s Champion” (1841)\u003cbr\u003eSelected Poems\u003cbr\u003eHoratio Alger, Jr.\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eCharlie Codman’s Cruise\u003c\/em\u003e (1866)\u003cbr\u003eHarry Enton\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eYoung Sleuth, the Keen Detective\u003c\/em\u003e (1877)\u003cbr\u003eHoward Pyle\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Merry Adventures of Robin Hood\u003c\/em\u003e (1883)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Schooldays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrederick Wadsworth Loring\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eTwo College Friends\u003c\/em\u003e (1871)\u003cbr\u003eHenry Blake Fuller\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Allisonian Classical Academy\u003c\/em\u003e (1876)\u003cbr\u003eCharles Macomb Flandrau\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eHarvard Episodes\u003c\/em\u003e (1897)\u003cbr\u003eShirley Everton Johnson\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Cult of the Purple Rose\u003c\/em\u003e (1902)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart V: The Oscar Model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003e“Wilde in Utica” (1882)\u003cbr\u003eEarl Lind\u003cbr\u003e“The Case of Oscar Wilde” (1918)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart VI: Arcadia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBayard Taylor\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003ePoems of the Orient\u003c\/em\u003e (1855)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Poet’s Journal\u003c\/em\u003e (1863)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eJoseph and His Friend\u003c\/em\u003e (1870)\u003cbr\u003eCharles Warren Stoddard\u003cbr\u003e“Pearl-Hunting in the Pomotous” (1873)\u003cbr\u003eHenry James\u003cbr\u003e“The Great Good Place” (1909)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart VII: The Domestic Homosexual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoward Overing-Sturgis\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eBelchamber\u003c\/em\u003e (1905)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Santayana\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003ePersons and Places\u003c\/em\u003e (1986)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart VIII: Haunted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Blake Fuller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt St. Judas’s\u003c\/em\u003e (1896)\u003cbr\u003eGertrude Atherton\u003cbr\u003e“The Striding Place” (1896)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Sylvester Viereck\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eNineveh and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1908)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Candle and the Flame\u003c\/em\u003e (1912)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IX: Purloined Popular Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBret Harte\u003cbr\u003e“Tennessee’s Partner” (1869)\u003cbr\u003e“Jim” (1870)\u003cbr\u003eThomas Bailey Aldrich\u003cbr\u003e“Marjorie Daw” (1873)\u003cbr\u003eHenry Cuyler Bunner\u003cbr\u003e“Our Aromatic Uncle” (1895)\u003cbr\u003eEdward Prime-Stevenson\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eMrs. Dee’s Encore\u003c\/em\u003e (1896)\u003cbr\u003eJack London\u003cbr\u003e“The White Silence” (1899)\u003cbr\u003eJames Weldon Johnson\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man\u003c\/em\u003e (1912)\u003cbr\u003eEdward Prime-Stevenson\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAquae Multae Non\u003c\/em\u003e—” (1913)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart X: Of Hearts Thrown Open\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFitz-Greene Halleck\u003cbr\u003eSelected Poems\u003cbr\u003eJames Whitcomb Riley\u003cbr\u003e“Good-Bye, Jim” (1893)\u003cbr\u003eBliss Carman and Richard Hovey\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eSongs from Vagabondia\u003c\/em\u003e (1894)\u003cbr\u003eEdward Perry Warren\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eItamos\u003c\/em\u003e (1903)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Edward Woodberry\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrumbull Stickney\u003cbr\u003eSelected Poems\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Cabot Lodge\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003ePoems and Dramas\u003c\/em\u003e (1911)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Santayana\u003cbr\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart XI: Doctors, Case Studies, and Erotopaths\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Mills Peirce\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eSexual Inversion\u003c\/em\u003e “Letter from ‘Professor X’” (1897)\u003cbr\u003eClaude Hartland\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Story of a Life\u003c\/em\u003e (1901)\u003cbr\u003eWilla Cather\u003cbr\u003e“Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament” (1905)\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Lee Howard\u003cbr\u003e“Effeminate Men and Masculine Women” (1900)\u003cbr\u003e“The Sexual Pervert in Life Insurance” (1906)\u003cbr\u003eEarl Lind\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Autobiography of an Androgyne\u003c\/em\u003e (1918)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart XII: Men in Groups\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosiah Flynt Willard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHomosexuality Among Tramps\u003c\/em\u003e (1897)\u003cbr\u003eMorris Schaff\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eThe Spirit of Old West Point\u003c\/em\u003e (1907)\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Berkman\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003ePrison Memoirs of an Anarchist\u003c\/em\u003e (1912)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart XIII: To You Alone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerman Melville\u003cbr\u003eTwo Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Davis Millet\u003cbr\u003eLetters to Charles Warren Stoddard (1875)\u003cbr\u003eBernard X.\u003cbr\u003e“A Merry Christmas” (1887)\u003cbr\u003eClyde Fitch\u003cbr\u003eLetter to DeWitt Miller (1891)\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Sylvester Viereck\u003cbr\u003eLetter to George E. Woodberry (ca. 1912)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eSources\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041305919831,"sku":"9781551117287","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551117287.jpg?v=1750949744","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/glances-backward-an-anthology-of-american-homosexual-writing-1830-1920-9781551117287","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}