Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual…

by Mark Mitchell (Editor), David Leavitt (Editor), Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (Contributor)

Other authors: Edward Frederic Benson (Contributor), Ambrose Bierce (Contributor), John Francis Bloxam (Contributor), Edwin Emanuel Bradford (Contributor), Willa Cather (Contributor) — 21 more, Charlotte Charke (Contributor), John Cleland (Contributor), Alan Dale (Contributor), Edward Morgan Foster (Contributor), Kenneth Grahame (Contributor), Henry James (Contributor), David Herbert Lawrence (Contributor), Herman Melville (Contributor), John Gambril Nicholson (Contributor), Walter Pater (Contributor), Frederick Rolfe (Contributor), Saki (Contributor), Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (Contributor), Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (Contributor), Charles Warren Stoddard (Contributor), Howard Overing Sturgis (Contributor), Bayard Taylor (Contributor), Horace Annesley Vachell (Contributor), Patrick Weston (Contributor), Louis Umfreville Wilkinson (Contributor), Owen Wister (Contributor)

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The is a collection of short stories and novel excerpts that not only provided a look at non-mainstream literature, but can serve as a guide to reading between the lines (yes, they did just imply what you think they implied).

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Mitchell, Mark	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Leavitt, David	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Prime-Stevenson, Edward Irenaeus	Contributor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Benson, Edward Frederic	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bierce, Ambrose	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Cather, Willa	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Charke, Charlotte	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Dale, Alan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Foster, Edward Morgan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Weston, Patrick	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Wilkinson, Louis Umfreville	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
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Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914

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It was only after the Stonewall riots and the birth of the gay liberation movement in 1969 that the official category "gay writing" came into being. Yet writings by and about lesbians and gay men have a much longer history than that. In Pages Passed from Hand to Hand David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell have charted 200 years of writing about gay men that includes such obscure items as Charlotte Chark's 1755 novel The History of Henry Dumont Esq. and Alan Dale's 1889 A Marriage Below Zero as well as surprisingly homoerotic work by Herman Melville, Henry James, and Ambrose Bierce. While most of these works were already known to serious readers of gay literature, Leavitt and Mitchell's contribution in Pages Passed from Hand to Hand is in consciously placing the material in a clear, unambiguously gay tradition for readers of all sexual persuasions.

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