 | sexuality, and Revenge" in D. H. Lawrence, a long essay (50 pages) on the "double lives" of Lawrence and Jack London, and another long essay (50 pages) on the relationship of Lawrence and Maurice Magnus, to whose
Memoirs of the Foreign Legion
(New York: Knopf, 1925) Lawrence wrote a curiously ambivalent introduction.
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| 13. I have inserted and revised portions of "Stoddard's Little Tricks in
South Sea Idyls," Journal of Homosexuality
8 (Spring/Summer 1983), 73-81.
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| 14. The labor of re-creating the notes to
Genteel Pagan
has been shared by Eve Crandall, my research assistant during the summer of 1990. In turn we have relied heavily on two invaluable sources: Carl G. Stroven, "A Life of Charles Warren Stoddard" (Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1939); Ray C. Longton,
Three Writers of the Far West: A Reference Guide
(Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980).
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| 15. "Exchange,"
Nation,
2-9 January 1982, 2. In his response, Vidal asserts his belief that
"everyone
is bisexual" and that homosexuals will exist as a category only "as long as the Judeo-Christian majority insists that those who practice same-sexual activities are illegal or abominable or mentally ill" (p. 19). Like some ''women writers" who resist this label, Vidal rejects the category of "homosexual novelist" as unduly restrictive and reductive.
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| 16. "The Feminist Critical Revolution," in
The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory,
ed. Elaine Showalter (New York: Pantheon, 1985), p. 6.
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| 1. "The modern terms
homosexuality
and
heterosexuality
do not apply to an era that had not yet articulated these distinctions. Only in the late nineteenth century did European and American medical writers apply these categories and stigmatize some same-sex relationships as a form of sexual perversion." John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman,
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
(New York: Harper & Row, 1988), p. 121. See also Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Disorder and Gender Crisis, 1870-1956," in
Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
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| The new-historicist commonplaces that "doctors created and defined the identities of 'inverts' and 'homosexuals' at the turn of the century" and that "people uncritically internalized the new medical models" have been resisted by George Chauncey, Jr., who argues: "Such assumptions attribute inordinate power to ideology as an autonomous social force; they oversimplify the complex dialectic between social conditions, ideology, and consciousness which produced gay identities, and they belie the evidence of preexisting subcultures and identities contained in the [medical] literature itself." "From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance,"
Salmagundi,
nos. 58-59 (Fall 1
9
82-Winter 1983), 115.
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| 2. Thomas Yingling, review of Charles Warren Stoddard,
For the Pleasure of His Company
and
Cruising the South Seas, American Literary Realism
21 (Spring 1989), 91-92.
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