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
Another concept
Further to a putative thesis advisor’s book, which of course has now skyrocketed towards the top of my reading list, I wonder if it would be a legitimate and supportable claim to suggest that it was the established transatlantic intellectual network (through the academy, or through wherever) that was already trading int/cult trends, that enabled the importation of homosexuality to America.
I’ll see when I read Katz (which is happening on Tuesday, when I make it to my nearest university library), but my guess from reading the reviews is that he and other scholars, while having done groundbreaking work in establishing what was going on in America at the turn of the century, haven’t really delved into why. I think that’s starting to look like what my project will hope to answer. That is to say, American men were having sex with each other in the 19th century. They weren’t calling it homosexuality—then they were. They got that from somewhere. And the shortest distance between two points is a straight (heheh) intellectual line.
