Glances Backward: An Anthology of American Homosexual Writing, 1830-1920 Book

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

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