Male Homosexuality in Children’s Literature, 1867-1918 Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book takes as its starting point Stevenson’s catalog of homosexual boy books and offers a critical examination of these works, along with others by gay writers who wrote for children from the1850s through the end of World War I. Stevenson’s list includes Eduard Bertz, Howard Sturgis, Horace Vachell, and Stevenson himself—to which I add Horatio Alger, John Gambril Nicholson, and E.F. Benson. Read alongside major developments in English- and German-language sexology, these boy books can be un...