The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene HalleckUniv of Wisconsin Press, 2000 - 226 Seiten Hailed in the mid-nineteenth century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was a close friend of William C. Bryant, an associate of Charles Dickens and Washington Irving, and a celebrity sought out by John Jacob Astor and American presidents. Halleck, an attractive man of wit and charm, was dubbed "the American Byron" because he both employed similar poetic strategies and challenged the most sacred institutions of his day. A large general readership enjoyed his verse, though it was infused with homosexual themes. Indeed, Halleck's love for another man would be fictionalized in Bayard Taylor's novel Joseph and His Friend a century before the Stonewall riots. |
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... earliest homosexual poet , Fitz - Greene Halleck . President Hayes , who had taken office only two months earlier , un ... early American poets . " 3 While favorable portraits of Hal- leck had been painted by America's leading artists ...
... early nineteenth - century homosexuality is an impossible category since homosexuality did not become formally conceptualized until late in the century . Given this historical framework , then , one must ask : What's a gay man like ...
... Early - Nineteenth - Century Or- ganization of Love . " Social constructionist essays , for example , David M. Halperin's " Sex before Sexuality , " and essentialist counterarguments , such as John Boswell's " Revolutions , Universals ...
... early Ameri- can texts predating the term " homosexual , " which did not appear in any American document before 1890 and was not in common use until more than thirty years after that.31 In 1850 , Melville wrote that Hawthorne had ...
... early Federalism are court cases for nonconsensual sod- omy or male rape between men of significant economic or age differences , it is not surprising that anal intercourse , also known as Greek sex , pre- vailed in these violent power ...
Inhalt
Shepherds of Sodomy | 17 |
Love and War | 42 |
The Widow Halleck | 67 |
Conquer and Divide | 92 |
A Return to Ganymede | 121 |
Halleck and His Friend | 151 |
Notes | 177 |
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