Male Homosexuality in Childrens Literature, 18671918

Auteur

Eric L. Tribunella, Professor of English, teaches children's and young adult literature and gay studies at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children's Literature (2010), the co-author of Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction (2013/2019), and the co-editor of A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children's Literature Collection (2021). He edited a critical edition of Edward Prime-Stevenson's 1891 boys' novel Left to Themselves (2016), and among his various journal articles and book chapters, he contributed the essay on children's literature and childhood studies to the Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature (2014).

Texte du rabat

Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, work by Stevenson and other gay writers who wrote for children, can be understood as participating in the construction and dissemination of the discourse of sexuality and as constituting the figure of the young Uranian as central to modern gay identity.

Contenu

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction Uncovering the Early History of Gay Children's Literature

Chapter 1 New York City and the Proto-Uranian Street Boys of Alger's Ragged Dick Series

Chapter 2 Boys as Noble Uranians: Eduard Bertz's The French Prisoners and the Discourse of Sexology

Chapter 3 Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, and Uranian Schoolboys in Howard Sturgis's Tim and Horace Vachell's The Hill

Chapter 4 Between Boys: Coding Young Uranians in Edward Prime-Stevenson's Left to Themselves and White Cockades

Chapter 5 The Adult Tutor and the Young Uranian: Greek Love in John Gambril Nicholson's In Carrington's Duty-Week and The Romance of a Choir Boy

Chapter 6 E.F. Benson's David Blaize Books and Boys as the "Third Sex"

Conclusion "The Future May be Trusted to Decide": Boy Books and the Possibilities of Gay Children's Literature

Index