Union Like Ours
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alcoholism
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
anti-LGBTQ laws
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before gay liberation movement
before Stonewall
best books on LGBTQ history
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Civil rights
closeted
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definition of gay
definition of homosexuality
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early 20th-century same-sex relationships
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F. O. Matthiessen
first half of twentieth century
from discrimination to marriage equality
gay academics
gay artists
Gay history
Gay literary canon
gay relationships in pre-WWII America
Great Depression
Harvard
historical perspectives on same-sex love
history of marriage equality in the U.S.
homophobia in healthcare
homosexuality in early twentieth century
how LGBTQ history informs today
Kittery
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lessons from early LGBTQ activists
LGBTQ biographies
LGBTQ biography
LGBTQ history
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queer coding
queer history
queer history and social change
queer history books
queer literature history
Rat & the Devil: The Journal Letters of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney
Russell Cheney
same-sex relationships in the early 1900s
Skull and Bones
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Springfield
The New Life
Tom Crewe
Yale
Product details
- ISBN 9781625346377
- Weight: 149g
- Dimensions: 133 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2022
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fell in love and remained inseparable until Cheney's death in 1945. During the intervening years, the men traveled throughout Europe and the United States, achieving great professional success while contending with serious personal challenges, including addiction, chronic disease, and severe depression.
During a hospital stay, years into their relationship, Matthiessen confessed to Cheney that "never once has the freshness of your life lost any trace of its magic for me. Every day is a new discovery of your wealth." Situating the couple's private correspondence alongside other sources, Scott Bane tells the remarkable story of their relationship in the context of shifting social dynamics in the United States. From the vantage point of the present day, with marriage equality enacted into law, Bane provides a window into the realities faced by same-sex couples in the early twentieth century, as they maintained relationships in the face of overt discrimination and the absence of legal protections.
