Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0870239805 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is editor of New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio and author of The Black Heart's Truth: The Early Career of W. D. Howells and The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction, both published by the University of Massachusetts Press. The late Roger Austen is author of Playing the Game: The Homosexual Novel in America. Crowley is professor of English at Syracuse University. John W. . D. Howells. His other books include The Mask
Martin"A fascinating double portrait of two pioneers. Austen's work makes an absorbing narrative, raising many questions about the nature of homosexual desire and its management in the nineteenth century."Robert K. "Austen's portrait of Stoddard is dramatic and affecting, but what is really extraordinary is the way in which, in the dilemma of his homosexuality, Stoddard reveals so much about the social-sexual codes of his timeand looks ahead to issues of gay identity today. Written 'in the spirit of Stonewall rather than of Foucault,' Genteel Pagan is a model of clarity, intensity, and compassion."David Bergman"Once you read Genteel Pagan, you will never be a
A biography of a homosexual writer by a gay literary historian, this book offers not only the first published life of Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909), but also a wealth of new material on the formation of gender roles in late nineteenth-century America.
a biography written in the author's blood Roger Austen was living on peanut-butter sandwiches while researching this book. I was assisting him by letter, living as I did on the other coast. He ended his life in despair. There ought to be a fund for gay scholars to help avoid tragedies like this. This is the one and only biography of a minor writer who was gay, and who is therefore mostly (if at all) of interest to students of homosexuality rather than of literature.. "Stoddard" according to Peter Garland. An essential piece of research for me as I'm wriitng about his friend Robert Louis Stevenson. Having become handicapped, I can no longer make it to my Univeristy library but you guys are keeping me in books at a reasonable cost.