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Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, work by Stevenson and other gay writers who wrote for children, can be understood as participating in the construction and dissemination of the discourse of sexuality and as constituting the figure of the young Uranian as central to modern gay identity.
List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction Uncovering the Early History of Gay Children's Literature
Chapter 1 New York City and the Proto-Uranian Street Boys of Alger's Ragged Dick Series
Chapter 2 Boys as Noble Uranians: Eduard Bertz's
The French Prisoners and the Discourse of Sexology
Chapter 3 Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, and Uranian Schoolboys in Howard Sturgis's
Tim and Horace Vachell's
The HillChapter 4 Between Boys: Coding Young Uranians in Edward Prime-Stevenson's
Left to Themselves and
White CockadesChapter 5 The Adult Tutor and the Young Uranian: Greek Love in John Gambril Nicholson's
In Carrington's Duty-Week and
The Romance of a Choir BoyChapter 6 E.F. Benson's David Blaize Books and Boys as the "Third Sex"
Conclusion "The Future May be Trusted to Decide": Boy Books and the Possibilities of Gay Children's Literature
Index
About the author
Eric L. Tribunella, Professor of English, teaches children's and young adult literature and gay studies at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of
Melancholia and Maturation: The Use of Trauma in American Children's Literature (2010), the co-author of
Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction (2013/2019), and the co-editor of
A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children's Literature Collection (2021). He edited a critical edition of Edward Prime-Stevenson's 1891 boys' novel
Left to Themselves (2016), and among his various journal articles and book chapters, he contributed the essay on children's literature and childhood studies to the
Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature (2014).
Summary
Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, work by Stevenson and other gay writers who wrote for children, can be understood as participating in the construction and dissemination of the discourse of sexuality and as constituting the figure of the young Uranian as central to modern gay identity.
