Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-136) and index.
Contents:
All-male queer interracial families in the wilderness: James Fenimore Cooper solves his progeny problem -- Rehearsing and ridiculing marriage in The Virginian and other adventure tales -- American satyriasis in Whitman, Harris, and Hartland -- "Queer secrets" in men's clubs: humor, violence, and homoerotic elision in works by Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Eugene Field.
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