 | 3. M. E. Grenander, "Ambrose Bierce and Charles Warren Stoddard: Some Unpublished Correspondence,"
Huntington Library Quarterly
23 (May 1960), 290-92.
|
| 4. Stoddard to Jack London, 13 August 1903, letter copied in Stoddard's Notebook (Charles Warren Stoddard Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley).
|
| 5. The term "homosexual panic" has been used by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick to describe one characteristic of the "homophobia" that developed in counterpoint to "homosexuality'': the way the loathing of "homosexual" men by some "heterosexual" menhatred that is a defense against their own gender uncertaintiesredounds upon them, inciting fear lest their own "homosocial" inclinations might too be perceived as, or truly be, "perverse." See Sedgwick,
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), pp. 88-90; "The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic," in
Sex, Politics, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1983-84,
ed. Ruth Bernard Yeazell (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), pp. 148-86.
|
| 6.
lmre: A Memorandum
(Naples, Italy: The English Book-Press: R. Rispoli. 1906) was the work of Edward I. Prime-Stevenson, who was born in New Jersey in 868, but who subsequently settled in Europe. In 1908, he publishedagain under his pseudonym and in a small, private editionThe
Intersees: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life,
in which Stoddard's
South-Sea Idyls
was cited as an example of "American Philarrhenic Literature." See Roger Austen,
Playing the Game: The Homosexual Novel in America
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977), pp. 20-27.
|
| 7. Peter Gay,
The Tender Passion
(New York: Oxford University Press. 1986), p. 202.
|
| 8.
Cruising the South Seas: Stories by Charles Warren Stoddard,
ed. Winston Leyland (San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1987), p. 5. Henceforth
CSS.
|
| 9. Roger Austen, "Stoddard's Little Tricks in
South Sea Idyls," Journal of Homosexuality
8 (Spring/Summer 1983), 73-81. See also chapter
5.
|
| 10.
Nation 1
7 (18 December 1873), 411.
|
| 11. "Recent Literature,"
Atlantic Monthly
32 (December 1873), 746·
|
| 12. Ibid., p. 741.
|
| 13. "Editor's Easy Chair,"
Harpers Monthly 136
(December 1917), 149.
|
| 14. See my essay, "Howells, Stoddard, and Male Homosocial Attachment," in
The Mask of Fiction: Essays on W. D. Howells
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989).
|
|
