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• catalog abstract ""Historian Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America's oldest university during the years of its greatest influence. The Crimson Letter follows the gay experience at Harvard in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing upon students, faculty, alumni, and hangers-on who struggled to find their place within the confines of Harvard Yard and in the society outside." "Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde were the two dominant archetypes for gay students of the later nineteenth century. Shand-Tucci explores the dramatic and creative oppositions and tensions between the Whitmanic and the Wildean, the warrior poet and the salon dazzler, and demonstrates how they framed the gay experience at Harvard and in the country as a whole." "The core of this book, however, is a portrait of a great university and its community struggling with the full implications of free inquiry. Harvard took very seriously its mission to shape the minds and bodies of its charges, who came from and were expected to perpetuate the nation's elite, yet struggled with the open expression of their sexual identities, which it alternately accepted and anathematized. Harvard believed it could live up to the Oxbridge model, offering a sanctuary worthy of the classical Greek ideals of male association, yet somehow remain true to its legacy of respectable austerity and Puritan self-denial." "The Crimson Letter therefore tells stories of great unhappiness and manacled minds, as well as stories of triumphant intellect and fulfilled promise. Shand-Tucci exposes the secrecy and codes that attended the gay experience, showing how their effects could simultaneously thwart and spark creativity. He explores in particular the question of gay sensibility and its effect upon everything from symphonic music to football, set design to statecraft, poetic theory to skyscrapers."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12790666.
• catalog coverage "United States Civilization 20th century.".
• catalog coverage "United States Intellectual life.".
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description ""Historian Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America's oldest university during the years of its greatest influence. The Crimson Letter follows the gay experience at Harvard in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing upon students, faculty, alumni, and hangers-on who struggled to find their place within the confines of Harvard Yard and in the society outside." "Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde were the two dominant archetypes for gay students of the later nineteenth century. Shand-Tucci explores the dramatic and creative oppositions and tensions between the Whitmanic and the Wildean, the warrior poet and the salon dazzler, and demonstrates how they framed the gay experience at Harvard and in the country as a whole." "The core of this book, however, is a portrait of a great university and its community struggling with the full implications of free inquiry. Harvard took very seriously its mission to shape the minds and bodies of its charges, who came from and were expected to perpetuate the nation's elite, yet struggled with the open expression of their sexual identities, which it alternately accepted and anathematized. Harvard believed it could live up to the Oxbridge model, offering a sanctuary worthy of the classical Greek ideals of male association, yet somehow remain true to its legacy of respectable austerity and Puritan self-denial." "The Crimson Letter therefore tells stories of great unhappiness and manacled minds, as well as stories of triumphant intellect and fulfilled promise. Shand-Tucci exposes the secrecy and codes that attended the gay experience, showing how their effects could simultaneously thwart and spark creativity. He explores in particular the question of gay sensibility and its effect upon everything from symphonic music to football, set design to statecraft, poetic theory to skyscrapers."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "I. Warrior and aesthete : charting the continuum. -- 1. The warrior archetype : Walt Whitman's Harvard -- 2. The aesthete archetype : Oscar Wilde's Harvard -- II. Home and away : rules of the road. -- 3. Home : old Cambridge, Beacon Hill, Back Bay, North Shore -- 4. A stoic's perspective : Ohio Hellenist -- 5. Away : Left Bank, Red Square, Harlem, Greenwich Village -- 6. "Foxy Grandpa's" perspective : transcontinental homophile -- 7. Finale : Boston, New York, Washington--a rumor of angels -- III. Hound and horn : hunting the sensibility. -- 8. Yard and river : between Pathétique and Brideshead.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-386) and index.".
• catalog extent "ix, 403 p., [16] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0312198965 (hc)".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States Civilization 20th century.".
• catalog spatial "United States Intellectual life.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "305.9/0664/0973 21".
• catalog subject "Gay college students United States.".
• catalog subject "Gay college teachers United States.".
• catalog subject "Gays Education (Higher) United States.".
• catalog subject "Gays United States Intellectual life.".
• catalog subject "Gays United States.".
• catalog subject "HQ76.3.U5 S49 2003".
• catalog subject "Harvard University Alumni and alumnae.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University Faculty.".
• catalog subject "Homosexuality and education United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "I. Warrior and aesthete : charting the continuum. -- 1. The warrior archetype : Walt Whitman's Harvard -- 2. The aesthete archetype : Oscar Wilde's Harvard -- II. Home and away : rules of the road. -- 3. Home : old Cambridge, Beacon Hill, Back Bay, North Shore -- 4. A stoic's perspective : Ohio Hellenist -- 5. Away : Left Bank, Red Square, Harlem, Greenwich Village -- 6. "Foxy Grandpa's" perspective : transcontinental homophile -- 7. Finale : Boston, New York, Washington--a rumor of angels -- III. Hound and horn : hunting the sensibility. -- 8. Yard and river : between Pathétique and Brideshead.".
• catalog title "The Crimson Letter : Harvard, homosexuality, and the shaping of American culture / Douglass Shand-Tucci.".
• catalog type "text".