A collection of notes, titles, citations, thoughts, images, acknowledgements, etc. relating to a senior thesis on the intellectual history of male homosexuality in the 19th century.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Executing: Literary executors can make or break a scholar's work.
This is exactly true. Symonds’ executor, Horatio Brown, was so concerned about preserving his friend’s reputation as a scholar and about keeping gossip-minded people away from the fact that Brown himself was of the Greek persuasion that he buried pretty deeply Symonds’ work on homosexuality. The importance of that work, and the extent of Symonds’ contributions to developing a theory of modern homosexuality, are only now being understood, thanks to Brown.
