The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture
The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture In a book deeply impressive in its reach while also deeply embedded in its storied setting, bestselling historian…
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The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture
In a book deeply impressive in its reach while also deeply embedded in its storied setting, bestselling historian Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America's oldest university during the years of its greatest influence. One was the robust praise-singer of American democracy, embraced at the start of his career by Ralph Waldo Emerson; the other was the Oxbridge aesthete whose visit to Harvard in 1882 became part of the university's legend and lore, and whose The Crimson Letter follows the gay experience at Harvard in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing upon students, faculty, alumni, and hangers-on who struggled to find their place within the confines of Harvard Yard and in the society outside.Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde were the two dominant archetypes for gay undergraduates of the later nineteenth century.
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