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Bayard Taylor’s Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (1870) has been called “America’s first gay novel.”[1] In the book, during a train ride Joseph Asten's eyes settle on a stranger, passenger Philip Held. Feeling his stare, Philip looks back. The narrative states that “[t]he usual reply to such a gaze is an unconscious defiance…but the look which seems to answer, 'We are men, let us know each other!' is, alas! too rare in this world.”[2] | Bayard Taylor’s Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (1870) has been called “America’s first gay novel.”[1] In the book, during a train ride Joseph Asten's eyes settle on a stranger, passenger Philip Held. Feeling his stare, Philip looks back. The narrative states that “[t]he usual reply to such a gaze is an unconscious defiance…but the look which seems to answer, 'We are men, let us know each other!' is, alas! too rare in this world.”[2] | ||
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In time, yielding to “manly love...as tender and true as the love of woman,” they kiss.[3] Yet, Joseph finds a potential bride, leaving Philip “vicariously happy, warmed in [his] lonely sphere by the far radiation of [Joseph's] nuptial bliss.”[4] | In time, yielding to “manly love...as tender and true as the love of woman,” they kiss.[3] Yet, Joseph finds a potential bride, leaving Philip “vicariously happy, warmed in [his] lonely sphere by the far radiation of [Joseph's] nuptial bliss.”[4] | ||
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1. Hugh Stevens, Henry James and Sexuality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 70, accessed October 19, 2012, http://books.google.com/books?id=iWHu1rDFMcIC&q=gay+novel#v=snippet&q=gay%20novel&f=false. | 1. Hugh Stevens, Henry James and Sexuality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 70, accessed October 19, 2012, http://books.google.com/books?id=iWHu1rDFMcIC&q=gay+novel#v=snippet&q=gay%20novel&f=false. | ||
2. Bayard Taylor, Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1870), 91. | 2. Bayard Taylor, Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1870), 91. | ||
3. Ibid., 217. | 3. Ibid., 217. | ||
4. Ibid., 361. | 4. Ibid., 361. | ||
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(Title page from Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania, 1870 edition)
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Joseph and His Friend, the Book
Bayard Taylor’s Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (1870) has been called “America’s first gay novel.”[1] In the book, during a train ride Joseph Asten's eyes settle on a stranger, passenger Philip Held. Feeling his stare, Philip looks back. The narrative states that “[t]he usual reply to such a gaze is an unconscious defiance…but the look which seems to answer, 'We are men, let us know each other!' is, alas! too rare in this world.”[2]
In time, yielding to “manly love...as tender and true as the love of woman,” they kiss.[3] Yet, Joseph finds a potential bride, leaving Philip “vicariously happy, warmed in [his] lonely sphere by the far radiation of [Joseph's] nuptial bliss.”[4]
References
1. Hugh Stevens, Henry James and Sexuality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 70, accessed October 19, 2012, http://books.google.com/books?id=iWHu1rDFMcIC&q=gay+novel#v=snippet&q=gay%20novel&f=false. 2. Bayard Taylor, Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1870), 91. 3. Ibid., 217. 4. Ibid., 361.
