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
At an age when [Englishmen] are still boys at Eton, or lads at Oxford, they are practising some important profession, making money in some intricate business…. Their education is quite different from ours. They know men much better than they know books, and life interests them more than literature. They have no time to study anything but the stock markets, no leisure to read anything but the newspapers. Indeed, it is only the women in America who have any leisure at all; and, as a necessary result of this curious state of things, there is no doubt but that, within a century from now, the whole culture of the New World will be in petticoats.
Oscar Wilde, “The American Man,” Court and Society Review IV, 142 (23 March 1887), 270-1. I wonder (if true) what relevance this has to the apparently greater coagulation of women’s intellectual, homosexual community at the period.
