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Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard
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About Genteel Pagan: The Double Life Of Charles Warren
Product Description A biography of a homosexual writer by a gay literary historian, this book offers not only the first published life of Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909), but also a wealth of new material on the formation of gender roles in late nineteenth-century America. Review "Austen's portrait of Stoddard is dramatic and affecting, but what is really extraordinary is the way in which, in the dilemma of his homosexuality, Stoddard reveals so much about the social-sexual codes of his time―and looks ahead to issues of gay identity today. . . . It is, I think, an instant classic."―Robert Emmet Long "A major contribution to the study of homosexuality and masculinity in American literature and society. Austen's work makes an absorbing narrative, raising many questions about the nature of homosexual desire and its management in the nineteenth century."―Robert K. Martin "A fascinating double portrait of two pioneers. . . . Crowley deserves to be thanked by everyone in the academy, for with grace, sensitivity, and decency, he has brought to completion an admirable work that would have been otherwise lost. Written 'in the spirit of Stonewall rather than of Foucault,' Genteel Pagan is a model of clarity, intensity, and compassion."―David Bergman "Once you read Genteel Pagan, you will never be able to forget the presence of gay men in the American past. Stoddard is our man in the 19th century, and it is good, at last, to have one."― Lambda Book Report "Austen has made a lasting contribution to literary history with this biography."― San Francisco Review of Books From the Back Cover A biography of a homosexual writer by a gay literary historian, this book offers not only the first published life of Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909), but also a wealth of new material on the formation of gender roles in late nineteenth-century America. About the Author The late Roger Austen is author of Playing the Game: The Homosexual Novel in America. John W. Crowley is professor of English at Syracuse University. He is editor of New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio and author of The Black Heart's Truth: The Early Career of W. D. Howells. His other books include The Mask of Fiction: Essays on W. D. Howells and The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction, both published by the University of Massachusetts Press.
