Glances Backward: An Anthology of American Homosexual Writing, 1830-1920
Glances Backward 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.\ Many of these works, such as The Cult of the Purple Rose, 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...
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Acknowledgments\ Introduction\ Part I: The Intersexes\ Edward Prime-Stevenson From "Out of the Sun" (1913)\ From The Intersexes (1908)\ Part II: Two-Spirit People\ Slim Curly From "The Mothway Myth" (recorded 1930)\ John Tanner From A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (1830)\ George Catlin\ "Dance to the Berdashe" (1844)\ Part III: Luck, Pluck, and a Kindly Mentor\ Walt Whitman\ "The Child’s Champion" (1841)\ Selected Poems\ Horatio Alger, Jr.\ From Charlie Codman’s Cruise (1866)\ Harry Enton From Young Sleuth, the Keen Detective (1877)\ Howard Pyle From The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883)\ Part IV: Schooldays\ Frederick Wadsworth Loring From Two College Friends (1871)\ Henry Blake Fuller From The Allisonian Classical Academy (1876)\ Charles Macomb Flandrau From Harvard Episodes (1897)\ Shirley Everton Johnson From The Cult of the Purple Rose (1902)\ Part V: The Oscar Model\ Anonymous\ "Wilde in Utica" (1882)\ Earl Lind\ "The Case of Oscar Wilde" (1918)\ Part VI: Arcadia\ Bayard Taylor From Poems of the Orient (1855)\ From The Poet's Journal (1863)\ From Joseph and His Friend (1870)\ Charles Warren Stoddard\ "Pearl-Hunting in the Pomotous" (1873)\ Henry James\ "The Great Good Place" (1909)\ Part VII: The Domestic Homosexual\ Howard Overing-Sturgis From Belchamber (1905)\ George Santayana From Persons and Places (1986)\ Part VIII: Haunted\ Henry Blake Fuller At St. Judas’s (1896)\ Gertrude Atherton\ "The Striding Place" (1896)\ George Sylvester Viereck From Nineveh and Other Poems (1908)\ From The Candle and the Flame (1912)\ Part IX: Purloined Popular Fiction\ Bret Harte\ "Tennessee’s Partner" (1869)\ "Jim" (1870)\ Thomas Bailey Aldrich\ "Marjorie Daw" (1873)\ Henry Cuyler Bunner\ "Our Aromatic Uncle" (1895)\ Edward Prime-Stevenson From Mrs. Dee’s Encore (1896)\ Jack London\ "The White Silence" (1899)\ James Weldon Johnson From The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)\ Edward Prime-Stevenson\ "Aquae Multae Non—" (1913)\ Part X: Of Hearts Thrown Open\ Fitz-Greene Halleck Selected Poems\ James Whitcomb Riley\ "Good-Bye, Jim" (1893)\ Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey From Songs from Vagabondia (1894)\ Edward Perry Warren From Itamos (1903)\ George Edward Woodberry From Selected Poems\ Trumbull Stickney Selected Poems\ George Cabot Lodge From Poems and Dramas (1911)\ George Santayana Selected Poems\ Part XI: Doctors, Case-Studies, and Erotopaths\ James Mills Peirce From Sexual Inversion "Letter from 'Professor X'" (1897)\ Claude Hartland From The Story of a Life (1901)\ Willa Cather\ "Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament" (1905)\ William Lee Howard\ "Effeminate Men and Masculine Women" (1900)\ "The Sexual Pervert in Life Insurance" (1906)\ Earl Lind From The Autobiography of an Androgyne (1918)\ Part XII: Men in Groups\ Josiah Flynt Willard\ "Homosexuality Among Tramps" (1897)\ Morris Schaff From The Spirit of Old West Point (1907)\ Alexander Berkman From Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912)\ Part XIII: To You Alone\ Herman Melville Two Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)\ Francis Davis Millet Letters to Charles Warren Stoddard (1875)\ Bernard X.\ "A Merry Christmas" (1887)\ Clyde Fitch Letter to DeWitt Miller (1891)\ George Sylvester Viereck Letter to George E. Woodberry (ca. 1912)\ Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading\ Sources
