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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.