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
The POINT right now:
There is an argument to be made for an intellectual history which places Symonds at the centre of a web of scholars/cultural thinkers (to whom he sent Greek Ethics and Modern Ethics) and therefore his INTELLECTUAL influence on the work of creating and defining homosexuality. Contra Grosskurth, perhaps, his importance is not in struggling over his own sexuality, it’s in defining the discipline of queer studies and his influence on what we call homosexuality today—you couldn’t have known that in 1964.
