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Bayard Taylor - Determined Dreamer of America's Rise, 1825-1878 (Hardcover)
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Bayard Taylor - Determined Dreamer of America's Rise, 1825-1878 (Hardcover)
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Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was a nineteenth-century American who
combined in his writings and career a catalog of accomplishments
and creations that made him one of the most celebrated literary men
of his time. The range and significance of Taylor's oeuvre explains
his growing importance today to scholars working in the fields of
American studies, gender and queer theory, and the aesthetics of
racial and class identities. In less than 35 years, he wrote
seventeen volumes of poetry, four novels, eight critical works and
translations of German classics, nineteen travel narratives,
innumerable magazine essays, stories, and reviews, and thousands of
letters to friends, admirers, hostile reviewers, business
acquaintances, and intimate male companions. His extraordinary
success on the public lecture circuit made him one of the
best-known men of his day. Taylor's diplomatic career enhanced his
reputation and influence as a travel writer and included service as
a writer for the Perry Expedition to Japan, as a charge d'affaires
to Russia during the Civil War, and ambassador to Germany in 1878.
This analysis of Taylor's life and works helps to explain three
important shifts in American culture: the contradictory development
of American ethnocentrism and cosmopolitanism in the nineteenth
century; the impact of homophobia and homophilia upon American
literary production, criticism, and culture; and the inspirational
role played by poetry within a religious and economically-driven
society. The introduction describes Taylor's changing fortunes
within literary history and presents a methodological approach to
the Genteel tradition that recovers its distinctive aesthetic and
social values and explains how Taylor is its most winning and
significant representative. Taylor was a key figure in the
genealogy of American interactions with the Islamic world, and his
travel writing demonstrates how individual advancement in an
egalitarian society can be linked with aggressive imperialism
abroad. Taylor's novels display a subtle pattern of transgressive
sexuality and demonstrate how Taylor's manipulation of reputation
and genteel aesthetics created a space for individual expression
and freedom. Taylor's 1870 novel, Joseph and His Friend, is
frequently cited as America's first gay novel. This book's analysis
of Taylor's poetry draws the strands of egalitarian racialization
and male-male intimacy together with his abiding concern with
regional American identities and the mixed influences of religious
subcultures.
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