Genteel Pagan : The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard

Annotation. 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 A biography of a homosexual writer by a gay literary historian, this work not only provides a study of the life of Charles Warren Stoddard, but also offers new material on the formation of gender roles in late 19th-century America.