The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American CultureSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2004年6月1日 - 416 頁 In a book deeply impressive in its reach while also deeply embedded in its storied setting, bestselling historian Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America's oldest university during the years of its greatest influence. The Crimson Letter follows the gay experience at Harvard in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing upon students, faculty, alumni, and hangers-on who struggled to find their place within the confines of Harvard Yard and in the society outside. |
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... instance) was written under what his biographer calls “the intoxicating spell of Hafez,” it is significant that Emerson made no attempt in his translations to change the gender of poems addressed by Hafez to a youth he liked: “Take my ...
... Emerson's exclusive literary motive, and he probably never realized a love affair with a man. But this brand of eros was a crucial force in Emerson's life and writing.28 Crain instances two moments in Emerson's career when this was.
... instances two moments in Emerson's career when this was the case, neither of which, interestingly, is his friendship with Thoreau. Emerson is not generally an entry in gay and lesbian literary anthologies. Thoreau, however, who never ...
... instance, in his Plato and Platonism (1893), when he imagines (more as a British Victorian than an ancient Greek, but never mind) an Athenian visiting Lacedaemon and approving of the youths' cold baths, is extolling a more manly ...
... instance, as a key vector in the Whitman “movement,” if one can call it that. In a short biographical sketch intended as a rejoinder to a highly bigoted Secretary of the Interior who fired Whitman from his government clerkship over his ...
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Oscar Wildes Harvard | |
II HOME AND AWAY | |
Ohio Hellenist | |
Left Bank Red Square Harlem Greenwich Village | |
Transcontinental Homophile | |
Boston New York Washington A Rumor of Angels | |
ALSO BY DOUGLASS SHANDTUCCI | |
Notes | |
Notes for the Illustrations | |