Bertram Cope's Year

ISBN-13: 9781551117409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str.

Henry Blake Fuller

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Written in 1918, this is the story of Bertram Cope, a young college student, who is befriended by Medora Philips, a wealthy older woman who tries to match him with several eligible young women. However, Bertram is emotionally attached only to his friend, Arthur Lemoyne. The novel's portrayal of their friendship is subtle but has clear overtones of sexual attraction. Largely dismissed by contemporary critics, the novel is now considered a pioneering work of both American realism and gay literature.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Henry Blake Fuller: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Bertram Cope’s Year

Appendix A: Fuller’s Emendations to Bertram Cope’s Year

Appendix B: From Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus (1923)

Appendix C: Writings by Henry Blake Fuller

1. From Edmund Dalrymple (1904)
2. At Saint Judas’s from The Puppet Booth: Twelve Plays (1896)
3. “When Robert Sings” (n.d.)

Appendix D: Fuller’s Diary Entries, 1874–79

1. From “A Legacy to Posterity” (1874–79)
2. From “Allison Classical Academy” (1875)

Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews

1. Burton Rascoe, Chicago Tribune (8 November 1919)
2. Unsigned Review, Boston Evening Transcript (13 November 1919)
3. Llewellyn Jones, “Henry B. Fuller Portrays Youth and Would-Be Youth,” Chicago Evening Post (28 November 1919)
4. Unsigned Review, “Under the Microscope,” The Boston Post (n.d.)
5. H.L. Mencken, “The Flood of Fiction,” The Smart Set (January 1920)
6. Keith Preston, “North of Chicago,” “The Periscope,” Chicago Daily News (n.d.)
7. From Carl Van Vechten, “Henry Blake Fuller,” Excavations: A Book of Advocacies (1926)

Selected Bibliography