by Jonathan Ned Katz
University of Chicago Press, 2001
Paper: 978-0-226-42616-7 | Cloth: 978-0-226-42615-0
Library of Congress Classification HQ76.3.U5K375 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.76620973

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Love Stories, Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men's intimacies with men during the nineteenth century—including those of Abraham Lincoln—drawing flesh-and-blood portraits of intimate friendships and the ways in which men struggled to name, define, and defend their sexual feelings for one another. In a world before "gay" and "straight" referred to sexuality, men like Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds created new ways to name and conceive of their erotic relationships with other men. Katz, diving into history through diaries, letters, newspapers, and poems, offers us a clearer picture than ever before of how men navigated the uncharted territory of male-male desire.

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