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Dayneford's Library : American Homosexual Writing, 1900-1913
author
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Gifford, James.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870239937
print isbn13
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9780870239939
ebook isbn13
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9780585221120
language
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English
subject
Gays' writings, American--History and criticism, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Gay men in literature, Lesbians in literature, Homosexuality and literature--United States--History--20th century, Gender identity in literature, Li
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PS153.G38G54 1995eb
ddc
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810.9/353
subject
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Gays' writings, American--History and criticism, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Gay men in literature, Lesbians in literature, Homosexuality and literature--United States--History--20th century, Gender identity in literature, Li
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Dayneford's Library
American Homosexual Writing, 19001913
James Gifford
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Copyright 1995 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 9520017 ISBN 0-87023-993-7 (cloth); 9945 (pbk.) Designed by Jack Harrison Set in Monotype Centaur and Mahlau display by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gifford, James, 1946 Dayneford's library: American homosexual writing, 19001913 / James Gifford. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-993-7 (cloth: alk. paper).ISBN 0-87023-994-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Gays' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism. 2. American literature2oth centuryHistory and criticism. 3. Gay men in literature. 4. Lesbians in literature. 5. Homosexuality and literatureUnited StatesHistory2oth century. 6. Gender identity in literature. 7. Literature and societyUnited States20th centuryHistory and criticism. 8. Canon (Literature) I. Title. PS153.G38G54 1995 810.9'353dc2o 95-20017 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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Cui dono lepidum novum libellum? Corneli, tibi...
This is dedicated to JOHN W. CROWLEY teacher, friend, colleague
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
1. Dayneford's Library: An Introduction
1
2. Gifford's Face: The Natural Model of Homosexuality
21
3. Heart-Land: The Unnatural Model of Homosexuality
40
4. Pater-asty: The Domestic Model of Homosexuality
64
5. Dorian Devils: The Alien Model of Homosexuality
80
6. The Strenuous Lie: The Athletic Model of Homosexuality
98
7. Straight as an Arrow Man: The Aesthetic Model of Homosexuality
118
8. Dayneford Himself. Reaching Some Conclusions
135
Works Cited
141
Index
149
Illustrations follow page
84
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Acknowledgments
Grateful acknowledgment is made to those who have helped me throughout a lengthy process: Charles Watson, Susan Edmunds, the late Thomas Yingling, Sandra Engel, Philip Bean, Joseph Smith, Rene Haeberli, Burton Weiss, H. Daniel Smith, Rosaria Champagne, Richard Fallis, Norwin Hoffman, Larry McMurtry, Thomas Maneen, Jay Salsberg, Barbara Lanigan, and Mohawk Valley Community College, which granted me a welcome sabbatical to complete my research.
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1 Dayneford's Library: An Introduction
Great sexologist though he was, Havelock Ellis was not very perceptive when he failed to follow up an offhanded comment of his in the third edition of his pioneering study, Sexual Inversion: "There are... certain avocations to which inverts seem especially called. One of the chief of these is literature" (293).
It is precisely literature's contribution to the formation of homosexual "group consciousness"how gays are shaped and viewed by the historical momentthat concerns us in this study of gay writing of a hundred years ago. How did authors dealing with homosexuality view themselves? How did others view them? As David Bergman notes in his study of gay American literature, literary representation "has been of greater importance for gay communities than for any other ethnic, national, or religious group" (9). Relying perhaps too heavily on the stereotype of gay men being more literate than their contemporaries, he nonetheless argues persuasively that for turn-of-the-century homosexuals, lacking a viable gay cultural heritage, "their sense of being gay relied... intensely on literary representations" (59). Homosexuality, Bergman argues, is a literary construct for many gay people (6); but as we shall see, the
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relevant literature from a century ago indicates that any single construct was far from coherent or settled. Gay literature, arising in America for the first time in any force, was in a state of flux. There was, in fact, no single gay literary construct; there were many.
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