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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... play about Harvard, and thus for Harvard's gay experience I propose somewhat of a variant: the archetype, on the one hand, of the warrior (this chapter) and, on the other, of the aesthete (next chapter)—each an actual, indeed personal ...
... plays the aggressive and penetrating role, which is not seen as homosexual, while the other man, who is seen as such, plays the receptive and passive role. The extent of their belligerence is clear in this account from Ned's journal ...
... play then (and well enough to still amuse today: witness The Importance of Being Earnest).83 About one thing, however, there seems to have been no dissembling. Just as Tom and Ned were described as ardent patriots for the Union cause ...
... played a major role. This history, too, is often overlooked. Today's famous Head of the Charles regatta is a twentieth-century revival of a Fourth of July regatta sponsored first by Boston's aldermen in 1854 (it drew forty thousand ...
... play a man's part among men.” Townsend observes: “Like Santayana, [Henry] James clearly did not fit the image [of a Harvard man]. They were not manly presences.”130. South. Sea. Idylls. IF WALT WHITMAN was the great herald, to repeat Eve ...
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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 | |