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 more I read, the more I feel as if I’m seriously onto something with my class-and-intellectual-privilege angle. Many people are almost-saying it, but no one seems to have really pulled all the threads together to say that homosexuality was created by the upper literate and literary classes. Which is wonderful and exciting and really empowering, and makes me feel like a real historian. It is looking as if my thesis is probably not going to be very archive-focused, but that is what it is. It’ll be a sound piece of historiography and will train me well for the work I’m going to do in grad school.
And someday I will write a biography of John Addington Symonds. Just you wait.
