Victorian Same-Sex Dialogue, And Still Suspicious of Whitman
A few points we mentioned today may be reiterated. Back to my reference about Abraham Lincoln. During the Victorian Era, the actions and syntax of male companionship had much higher thresholds in order to cross into homosexual territory. This ideology even draws comparisons with the homoerotic relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter. […]
