The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene HalleckHailed in the mid-nineteenth century as the most important American poet of the period, Fitz-Greene Halleck was a close friend of William C. Bryant, an associate of Charles Dickens and Washington Irving, and a celebrity sought out by John Jacob Astor and American presidents. Halleck, an attractive man of wit and charm, was dubbed "the American Byron" because he both employed similar poetic strategies and challenged the most sacred institutions of his day. A large general readership enjoyed his verse, though it was infused with homosexual themes. Indeed, Halleck's love for another man would be fictionalized in Bayard Taylor's novel Joseph and His Friend a century before the Stonewall riots. |
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... expression . Perhaps less self - aware ( or more careful ) than his contemporaries , he still faced serious opposition . In the patriotic atmosphere of Reconstruction , he was accused of converting to Catholicism , displaying excessive ...
... expression , the question ponders the psychosocial presence of a homosexual figure in pre - Stonewall America . It appears that Fitz - Greene Halleck's sexuality was developing during the 1790s when " gay , " " queer , " and " friend of ...
... expression and re- pression , individual protest and public policing . Self - recognition and / or cultural regulation of the homosexual individual may result in a cele- brated , elevated position ( usually in Eastern and aboriginal ...
... expressed physical disdain for women ; his " central emo- tional direction " 33 was toward men , to whom he was intensely attracted . Alongside these fundamental observations regarding his feelings of love , Halleck simultaneously ...
... of earlier homosexual aesthetics is not possible , but Halleck's expression of his love for a dashing young doctor was not entirely turned to stone with him . 1 Shepherds of Sodomy There are some three thousand of 16 Introduction.
Contents
Shepherds of Sodomy | 17 |
Love and War | 42 |
The Widow Halleck | 67 |
Conquer and Divide | 92 |
A Return to Ganymede | 121 |
Halleck and His Friend | 151 |
Notes | 177 |
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