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Angel on a freight train : a story of faith and queer desire in nineteenth-century America /

"The story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker's struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life. Angel on a Freight Train examines the experiences of Samuel Edward Warren (1831-1909), a teacher and college professor in Troy, New York, who struggled...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baldwin, Peter C., 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Words, Flesh, and Spirit
  • Chapter 1. Friendship
  • Sweet Tones of Innocence
  • A Little Record of the Events
  • In Each Other's Arms
  • Shuffled About
  • Frolicking
  • Chapter 2. Teaching
  • Harmony and Affection
  • Ardor in the Cause of Learning
  • Forlorn Lack of Mutual Adaptation
  • Too Much Familiarity
  • Chapter 3. Evangelism
  • Quite at Home in the Congregational Church
  • Overflowing with Holy Affections
  • Sweet Willie
  • The Use of the Senses in Religion
  • Beyond My Control
  • Chapter 4. Fatherhood
  • A Single Life without Hope of Leaving a Name
  • The Things Which Remain
  • Reveries of a Pelted Turtle
  • A Universal Father
  • The Father and the Son
  • Thoroughly Revised
  • Epilogue: The Cross, the Grave, the Skies
  • A Teacher without Students
  • I Have Made My Bed in the Darkness
  • Abbreviations in Notes
  • Notes
  • Index.