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
Concepts
I’ve been falling down on the job on this, as I’m both on vacation and have taken a lot of my notetaking offline. But just in case anyone’s reading, some conceptual statements I formulated in the throes of insomnia a couple nights ago:
The role that American intellectuals played in importing (keyword) homosexuality from Britain/Europe
- through the university culture and academic channels, and perhaps it could be useful to do some of that Chameleon work here, find American equivalents! [I contemplated doing an article on the Chameleon, the gay Oxford journal, and its younger generation of men like Bosie who basically forced Wilde out of the closet, but that work could fit into the scheme of this project as well]
The way that this fits into broader context of contemporary American culture is how to engage that Wilde reception history stuff.
Women’s roles on the edges of the academy in the 19thC (see my faculty wives article idea) gives them unique position. Jane Addams fits in here kinda.
And of course the academy is the foreground of new knowledge/theories/ideas, of course it would be here if it’s nowhere else in the culture (how to engage my broader knowledge in academic history/culture).
