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The homosexual in literature

SPECIAL INDEXES

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Note: Unless preceded by P, all references are OTP—20th Century years except CL (to 1700) and 18/19 (18th/19th Centuries). Where such a reference would point to any of several works, as with short stories, the work intended is denoted by a further number:

Example: Barr P51-2 would indicate the second. “Derricks” SS.

The word “homosexuality” or “homosexual” is implicit in each heading.

I. By National Locale (other than contemporary U.S. and Britain).

Greece & environs

Mycenæan:

Homer, CL;

Shakespeare, CL;

Renault, 58.

Classic:

Aristophanes, CL (all);

Apuleius, CL;

Longus, CL;

Lucian, CL;

Mitchison, P28, 28, 31;

Renault, P56;

Strato, P18;

Xenophon of Ephesus, CL.

Byzantine:

Mahler, 52.

Turkish:

Kazantzakis, 54.

Modern:

Cauldwell, P56;

Cromwell, P53;

King, 57;

Peyrefitte, 54;

Thayer, P30.

Italy

Classical:

Catullus, CL;

Cummings, 27;

Martial, CL;

Petronius, CL;

Thoma, P27;

Yourcenar, P54.

Renaissance:

Prokosch 55;

Symonds (Michaelangelo), 18/19.

Modern:

Hayes, 46;

Hemingway, P38-1;

La Capria, 53;

Malaparte, 52;

Moravia, 50, 52;

Moretti, 53;

Parise, 53;

Pratolini, 52.

Capri:

Flagg, 54;

Mackenzie, 27, 28;

Randolph, 54;

Wheeler, 52.

Moslem World

Mediaeval:

Burton, 18/19.

Ottoman Turkish:

Istrati, 26;

Kazantzakis, 54.

French-African:

Bowles, 50, 52;

Gide, P30, P35;

Mackenzie, P57.

Arabia:

Prokosch, 53.

Central Asia:

Prokosch, 35.

Iraq:

Stewart, 52, 54.

Egypt:

Cossery, 52;

Durrell, 57, 58;

Schiemer, 56;

Cavafy, P52.

Lebanon:

Liddell, P52.

African Negros

Ruark, 55;

Prokosch, 48;

Taylor, 56.

Haiti Negros

Goodwin, P53.

Orient

China:

Langley, 53.

Japan:

Ibara, P28, P57;

Mishima, P58.

Siam:

Cook, P58.

Philippines:

Bowen, 53.

Europe

Spain:

Baxter, 54;

Carreno, 53;

Cela, 53;

Richler, 54.

Russia & Russians abroad:

Briffault, 35, 37.

Hungary & Hungarians abroad:

Mayne, P08;

Prezzi, P53.

Germany & Austria:

Isherwood, 46;

McAlmon, P27;

A Zweig, 30;

S Zweig, P27.

Germans abroad:

Böll, 56;

Coccioli, 58;

Heinrich, 56;

Hopkinson, P47;

Koeppen, 56;

Merrick, P54;

Schiemer, 56;

Richler, 54;

Spender, P36.

Belgium:

Eekhoud, P09.

France:

18th Cent.:

Sade, 18/19, 55, 57, 58.

19th & Early 20th:

Huysmans, 22, 24;

Martin du Gard, 39;

Proust, P27, 32;

Ullman, P58.

Modern (native):

Birabeau, P30;

Cocteau, P58;

Genet, P49, P54;

Gide, P27;

Jouhandeau, 53;

Leclercq, P28;

Llewellyn, 58;

McCown, 50;

Nesbit, 55;

Peters, P51;

Portal, P39;

Prokosch, 45;

Sartre, 47, 48, 51.

Modern (Anglo-Americans & other foreigners):

Baldwin, P56;

Boyle, P33;

Brackett, 29;

Connolly, 36;

Garland, 55;

McCown, 50;

Merrick, P54;

Stites, 27;

Vidal, 53;

Wakeman, 56.

Britain (sp.)

Mdvl:

Barnes, P57;

Druon, 56;

Seton, 54.

Elizabethan:

Barnfield, CL;

Shakespeare, CL.

Restoration:

Rochester, CL-1, 2;

Vanbrugh, CL.

18th Century:

Cleland, 18/19;

Smollett, 18/19.

19th & early 20th C:

Dale, P89;

Fitzroy, P17;

Furnell, P55;

Hichens, 18/19;

Stokes, P38;

Subercaseaux, 54.

Britons abroad:

Durrell, 57, 58;

Goff, P57;

Mackenzie, P57;

Maugham, 55;

Lawrence, 22.

America

Brazil:

Tuohy, 57.

Mexico:

Hemingway, P38-2;

Coccioli, 58.

Canada:

Cornish, 51;

Sanderson, P52.

19th & early 20th C. US:

Green, 55;

Lind, P19, P22;

Scully, P33.

II. Special Locales

Bars & Restaurants

U.S.:

Baum, 53;

Branson, P57;

Brossard, 53;

Burns, 52;

Gorham, 48-1;

Little, P52, P56;

Vidal, P48, 47, 52.

British:

Garland, P54;

Lindop, P55;

Underwood, P36;

Goff, P57.

Occupied Italy:

Burns, P47;

Wahl, P50.

Paris:

Baldwin, P56;

Stites, 27.

“Drags” & Parties

U.S.:

Hume, 25;

Levenson, P34;

Little, P52, P56;

McIntosh, P41;

Scully, P33;

Tellier, P31;

Tyler & Ford, P33;

Vidal, P48;

Kent, P49.

Britain:

Lindop, P55;

Milton, 28;

Renault, P53.

France:

Vidal, 53.

(19th C.:

Wilde?, P93/P58.)

Theaters

Rose, 58;

Williams, P54-2, 3.

Baths (Ancient & Modern)

Martial, CL;

Petronius, CL;

Dennis, 56;

Gorham, 48-1;

Grey, 52;

Vidal, 52.

Prisons

U.S.:

Barr, P55;

Daimler & Crannach, 56;

Himes, 52;

Linkletter, P58;

Scott, 51;

Teale, 57;

Webb, 48;

Viereck, 49, 52.

Britain:

Croft-Cooke, P55;

Hanley, 30;

Home, 47;

Wildeblood, P55.

France:

Genet, P49.

Hospitals & Asylums

Bishop, 54;

Brown, 44;

Peters, 49.

Schools—Secondary

U.S.:

Burns, 49;

Calmer, 34;

Goodman, P51;

Little, P52;

Vidal, P56-2.

British:

Dane, 31;

Fielding, 57;

Gellert, P58;

Lunn, 22;

Mitchell, 57;

Murdoch, P58;

Scarrott, 55;

Stewart, 52;

Waugh, 20;

Wiles, 58.

French:

Bourget, 05;

Martin du Gard, 39;

Peters, P51;

Peyrefitte, P50.

Austrian:

Musil, 55.

Collegiate U.S.:

Fuller, 19;

Gerber, P56;

Green, 51;

Gutwillig, 58;

Packer, P54;

Willingham, 47.

British:

Waugh, 45;

Winter, 36.

III. Professions & Special Occupations

Kings & Emperors

Barnes, P57;

Druon, 56;

Eekhoud, P09;

Gide, 52;

Lofts, 51;

Mahler, 52;

Mitchison, 31;

Renault, 58;

Schmitt, 46;

Seton, 54;

Stacton, P57;

Thoma, P27;

Yourcenar, P54;

Lampridius, P24.

Soldiers

Crusaders:

Lofts, 51;

Scarfoglio, 56.

British Army:

Baxter, P52;

Burns, P47;

Henriques, 40

U.S. Army:

Bourjaily, 47, 58;

Burns, P47;

Gerber, P56;

March, 33

Malaparte, 52;

McKillen, P52;

Murphy, P58;

Peters, 49;

Rosenthal, P53;

Wahl, P50;

Leveridge, P51.

French Army:

Nimier, 53.

German Army:

Böll, 56;

Clebert, 58;

Heinrich, 56;

Merrick, P54.

Hungarian Army:

Mayne, P08.

Spanish Loyalist Army:

Prokosch, 41.

Italian Army:

Hemingway, P38-1.

Sailors incl. officers

Barbee, 57;

Bowen, 53;

Coleman, P55;

Dibner, 53;

Cromwell, P53;

Levitt, P54;

Stern, P38.

Spies/Secret Agents

Habe, 58 (U.S.);

Millar, 47 (German).

Gangsters

Barr, P50-2;

Grey, 52;

Himes, 52;

Levenson, P34;

McCown, 50;

Teale, 57;

Warren, 53.

Doctors/Psychiatrists

Barnes, 37;

Garland, P54;

Isherwood, 54;

O’Hara, 58.

Teachers

Calmer, 34;

Eustis, 46;

Fielding, 57;

Goodman, P51;

Jackson, P46;

Lindop, P55;

Mitchell, 57;

Murdoch, P58;

Salinger, 51;

Thomas, P49;

Wiles, 58;

Zweig, P27.

Clergymen & Monks

Crannach, 57;

Douglas?, P07;

Ibara, P28-4;

McCown, 50;

Peyrefitte, P50, 54.

Diplomats

Garland, 55;

Llewellyn, 56;

Mackenzie, P57;

Peyrefitte, 54;

Ronns, 50.

Industrialists

Levenson, P34;

de Born, P54.

IV. Special Roles, Types, Situations and Relationships of Interest

As Husband or Lover (of woman) (includes bisexual, confused etc.)

After problems, presumed success:

Anderson, P54;

Cain, 37;

De Forrest, P49;

Douglas, P54;

Himmel, P50;

Hutchins, 53;

Linkletter, P58;

Moore, 56;

Murphy, P58;

Pelissero, P56;

Phillips, P50;

Prezzi, P53;

Renault, P56, 39;

Schane, P46;

Taylor, P52;

Williams, 55.

After some success, failure:

Anderson, P54;

Baldwin, P56;

de Born, P54;

Dowd, P50;

Engstrand, P47;

Gide, P30;

Goetz, P54;

Hopkinson, P47;

Jackson, P46;

McLaren, P53;

Priestley, 32;

Randolph, 54;

Smith, 48.

Restive & bisexually active:

Barnes, P57;

Baxter, P52;

Hayes, 46;

Jouhandeau, 53;

Lindop, P55;

Rosenthal, P53;

Ross, 58;

Wilson, P52.

Presumed failure from start:

Briffault, 35, 37;

Coward, P39;

Dale, P89;

Hall, 53;

Head, 43;

Murphy, P58;

Mackay, 55;

Millar, 55;

Stern, 57;

Wakeman, 56;

Williams, 47.

For convenience with Lesbian:

Graves, 31;

Heppenstall, 40;

Scully, P33;

Vidal, P48.

For convenience with understanding woman:

Bourjaily, 58;

Creekmore, P48;

Johnson, 57;

Seton, 54

Happy “marriages” (all-male)

Barr, P51-1;

Cornish, 51;

Gaddis, 55;

Ibara, P28-10;

Isherwood, 54;

Kent, P49;

McCown, 50.

As friend of boyhood pal who’s hetero

Creekmore, P48;

Vidal, P48;

Hall, 53;

Mahler, 52

As friend of young manhood pal who’s hetero

Bester, 55;

Burns, 52;

Cole, P35;

Sklar, 51;

Underwood, P36;

Mayne, P08.

As pal of nymphomaniac

McCown, 50;

Williams, P54-2

As seen by troubled mother

Birabeau, P30;

Bolton, P49;

Coyle, P34;

Dane, 31;

Cook, P58;

Dunphy, 52;

Goodman, P51;

Miller, 55;

Peters, P51;

Vance, P51.

As seen by troubled father

Bowles, P50;

Caldwell, 54;

Merrick, P54;

Tellier, P31

As seen by troubled daughter

Keogh, 50

Kept young men

Chandler, 39;

Dennis, 56;

Enters, 55;

Genet, P49;

Kazantzakis, 54;

Kent, P49;

King, 57;

Johnson, 57:

Prezzi, P53;

Shairp, 33;

Wolff, 56.

Male prostitutes

Aristophanes, CL-4;

Carreno, 53;

Cela, 53;

Cocteau, P58;

Bowen, 53;

Garland, 55;

Genet, P49;

Goff, P57;

Goodman, 50;

Goodwin, P53;

Gorham, 48-1;

Green, P57;

Isherwood, 46-2;

Keogh, 50;

Lewis, 32;

Mackenzie, P57;

McCown, 50;

Parise, 53;

Pratolini, 52;

Prokosch, 39;

Portal, P39;

Renault, P56;

Rohde, 56;

Wilson, P52, 50, 56;

Gerber, P56;

Vidal, P56-1;

Kent, P49.

With transvestite inclinations

Barnes, 37;

Engstrand, P47;

Eustis, 46;

Hume, 25;

Ibara, P28-12;

Kent, P49;

Linkletter, P58;

Langley, 53;

Levenson, P34;

Lind, P19, P22;

Little, P52, P56;

McCown, 50;

Millar, 44;

McIntosh, P41;

Parise, 53;

Scully, P33;

Southern, 58;

Stites, 27;

Underwood, 37.

With “miscegenatory” (with negros) inclinations

Bowles, P50;

Gerber, P56;

Goodwin, P53;

Taylor, 56;

Onstott, 56.

As Victim

Of murder:

Brooks, 45;

Cain, 37;

Chandler, 39;

Farrell, P34-1;

McIntosh, P41;

Roberts, 56;

Lind, P19, P22.

Of lynching:

Eekhoud, P09;

Williams, 58.

Of suicide:

Barr, P51-4;

Baxter, P52-Br.;

Brinig, 32;

Ibara, P28-5, 6, 7, 9;

Levenson, P34;

Mitchell, 57;

Niles, P31;

Peters, P51;

Peyrefitte, P50;

Tellier, P31;

Underwood, P34;

Vidal, P48.

Of self-sacrifice to save lover:

Scully, P33.

Of rape or attempted rape:

Barr, P51-1;

Leveridge, P51;

Lind, P19, P22;

Little, P52;

Musil, 55;

Peters, 49;

Subercaseaux, 40.

V. Index of Well-known or otherwise Noteworthy Authors

Allen, Steve: 55

Anderson, Sherwood: 19, 23

Aristophanes: CL

Barnfield, Richard: CL

Barr, James: P50, P51, P55

Barry, Philip: 39

Baum, Vicki: 53

Benson, A. C. (“Carr”): 18/19

Benson, E. F.: 31, 34

Bolton, Isabel: P49

Bourjaily, Vance: 47, 55, 58

Bowles, Paul: P50, 50, 52

Boyle, Kay: P33

Briffault, Robert: 35, 37

Brinig, Myron: 32

Brooks, Richard: 45

Burns, John Horne: P47, 49, 52

Burton, Sir Richard (tr.): 18/19

(see also Catullus: CL)

Cain, James M.: 37

Caldwell, Taylor: 54

Capote, Truman: 48

Carpenter, Edward: 02

Catullus, Caius V.: CL

Chandler, Raymond: 39

Cocteau, Jean: P58, 30/57

Connolly, Cyril: 36

Corvo, Baron: See Rolfe

Cory, Donald Webster: P53

Coward, Noël: P39, 39

Coyle, Kathleen: P34

Cummings, E. E.: 27

Dane, Clemence; 31, 55

De Born, Edith: P54

Dennis, Patrick: 56, 57

Douglas, Lord Alfred: P96, P35, 18/19, 35

Durrell, Lawrence: 57, 58

Eekhoud, Georges: P09

Farrell, James: P34

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: 34

Franken, Rose: 34

Garcia-Lorca, Federico: P40/P55

Garland, Rodney: P54, 46, 55

Genet, Jean: P49, P54, 54

Gide, André: P27, P30, P35, 49, 52

Goodman, Paul: P51, 42, 46, 50

Graves, Robert: 31

Green, Julien: P57, 51, 55

Hall, James Norman: 52

Hanley, James: 30, 32

Hemingway, Ernest: P38

Hesse, Hermann: 23, 29, 32, 52

Hichens, Robert S.: 18/19

Homer: CL

Huxley, Aldous: 36

Huysmans, Joris K.: 22, 24

Ibara, Saikaku: P28, P57

Isherwood, Christopher: 45, 46, 54

Jackson, Charles: P46, P50, 44

Johnson, Pamela Hansford: 57

Karp, David: 52

Kerouac, Jack: 58

King, Francis: 56, 57

Koestler, Arthur: 39

Langley, Noel: 37, 53

Lawrence, D. H.: 16, 17, 22

Lewis, Wyndham: 32

Lindop, Audrey Erskine: P55

Little, Jay: P52, P56

Llewellyn, Richard: 56, 58

McCullers, Carson: 41, 46

Mackenzie, Compton: P57, 27, 28

Mailer, Norman; 48, 55

Mann, Thomas: P25

Marlowe, Christopher: CL

Martial, Marcus: CL

Maugham, Robin: 49, 55

Mayne, Xavier: See Stevenson

Michaelangelo: 18/19 (see Symonds)

Mishima, Yukio: P58

Mitchison, Naomi: P28, 28, 31

Moravia, Albert: 50, 52

Murdoch, Iris: P58

O’Hara, John: 58

Paul, Elliot: 38

Peters, Fritz: P51, 49

Petronius, Caius: CL

Peyrefitte, Roger: P50, 54, 55

Platen, Count August von: P23

Priestley, J. B.: 32

Prokosch, Frederic: 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 46, 48, 53, 55

Proust, Marcel: P27, 32

Renault, Mary: P53, P56, 39, 58

Roberts, Kenneth: 56

Rochester, Earl of: CL

Rolfe, Frederick: 01, 02, 05, 34, 53, 58

Ruark, Robert: 55

Sade, Count D. A. F. de: 89, 55, 57, 58

Sartre, Jean-Paul: 47, 48, 51

Schiller, Friedrich von: 18/19

Schmitt, Gladys: 46, 52, 57

Shakespeare, William: CL

Smollett, Tobias G.: 18/19

Smith, Betty: 48

Spender, Stephen: P36, 36

Stern, James: P38/51

Stevenson, Edward I. P.: P08, 18/19, 13

Stout, Rex: P33

Symonds, John Addington: 18/19;

(as translator): 18/19

Thayer, Tiffany: P30

Theocritus: CL

Ullman, James Ramsay: P58

Vanbrugh, Sir John: CL

Van Vechten, Carl: 23, 30

Vance, Ethel: P51

Vergil(ius), Publius: CL

Vidal, Gore: P48, P56, 47, 49, 52, 53

Viereck, George Sylvester: 49, 52

Waugh, Alec: 20

Waugh, Evelyn: 42, 45, 57

Welch, Denton: P52, 46, 48, 51

Whitman, Walt: 18/19

Wilde, Oscar: P93?/P58?, P07?, 01

(as translator): See Petronius CL

Wildeblood, Peter: P55, P56

Williams, Tennessee: P48, P54, 47, 53, 54, 55, 58

Williams, William Carlos: P32

Willingham, Calder: 47, 51

Wilson, Angus: P52, 50, 51, 56, 57

Zweig, Stefan: P27.

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