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
My favorite title yet
“Classism and Classicism: Intellectual Privilege and the Foundations of American Homosexuality, 1880-1930”
I’m getting more specific. If I use this angle, not only am I much narrower (which is a good thing), I can talk about my literary men and their searches for validation in literature, Hellenism, the academy, and of course the transatlantic stuff and what comes over from Europe and why, and use all this to suggest that this is why upper- and middle-class men are talking about sexual object choice while, as per Chauncey, working-class men are more focused on a gender inversion model still. It’s not all anxiety about masculinity and the professional workplace!
