A Marriage Below Zero

ISBN-13: 9781551119830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 275 str.

Alan Dale; Richard A. Kaye

Opis

The first novel in English to explicitly explore the subject of male homosexuality. Written by a British emigre to America, the New York theatre critic Alfred J. Cohen, under the pseudonym of ""Alan Dale"", this first-person narrative is told by a young Englishwoman, Elsie Bouverie, who gradually discovers that her new husband, Arthur Ravener, is romantically involved with another man.

Spis treści

Introduction
Same-Sex Scandal in Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Brief Chronology
Alfred J. Cohen: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

A Marriage Below Zero

Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews

1. From The New York World (26 February 1889)
2. From The New York World (22 March 1889)
3. From The New York World (25 March 1889)
4. From The New York Daily Graphic (5 April 1889)
5. From Sacramento Daily Record-Union (20 April 1889)
6. From Belford’s Magazine (June 1889)
7. From Countess Annie De Montaigu, “Hot and Sticky,” Los Angeles Times (11 August 1889)
8. From “Professional Reform,” The San Francisco News Dealer (September 1890)
9. From The Los Angeles Herald (21 February 1891)
10. From The Cincinnati Enquirer (5 March 1891)
11. From the Los Angeles Times (3 December 1891)

Appendix B: Two Nineteenth-Century Historical and Literary Instances of Same-Sex Coupledom

1. Charles Dickens, “A Visit to Newgate” (1836)
2. From Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)

Appendix C: Modes of Homosexual Exploration and Advocacy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

1. From Walter Pater, “Conclusion,” Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)
2. From John Addington Symonds, “Male Love,” A Problem in Greek Ethics and Other Writings (1883)
3. From Sir Richard Burton, “Pederasty,” in the “Terminal Essay” to The Book of a Thousand Nights and One Night (1885)
4. George Bernard Shaw, Letter on “The Cleveland Street Scandals,” Truth Magazine (26 November 1889)
5. From John Addington Symonds, The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds (1892)
6. From Charles Kains Jackson, “The New Chivalry,” The Artist and Journal of Home Culture (2 April 1894)
7. From Edward Carpenter, Homogenic Love, and Its Place in a Free Society (1894)
8. Alan Dale (Alfred J. Cohen), “A Word from the Author,” An Eerie He and She (1889)

Appendix D: Late-Victorian Legal and Medical Models and the New Social Panic

1. From Section 11 of the 1885 Criminal Amendment Bill
2. From Richard Krafft-Ebing, “Case 237,” Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study (1886)
3. “Sex-Mania,” Reynolds’s Newspaper (21 April 1895)
4. From Olive Schreiner, “The Woman Question,” Cosmopolitan Magazine (1889)

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