Henry James and Queer Filiation Hardened Bachelors of the Edwardian Era /

• Main Author: Anesko, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; America-Literatures.; Social history.; Gender identity.; Sex and law.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; North American Literature.; Social History.; Gender and Sexuality.; Gender, Sexuality and Law.

This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in the shadow of the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. It reconstructs a surprisingly open network of queer filiation in which Henry James occupied a central place. The lives of its sat...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Lover . . . of the Fine Amenities
• 2. An American Who Loved England
• 3. The "Emmetry"
• 4. "The Baby"
• 5. Fast & Vicious?
• 6. Das Land ohne Musik
• 7. A Network of Repressions
• 8. "Arising from Dreams of Thee"
• 9. Immortal Youth
• 10. Within the Rim
• 11. "Keeping House with a Stranger"
• 12. The Jamesian Condom
• 13. Breaches.