Uranian Children’s Literature and the Early Gay Movement in England
The Romance of Youth
Series: Children's Literature and Culture;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 19 March 2026
- ISBN 9781041117292
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages244 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 610 g
- Language English 696
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Short description:
Uranian Children’s Literature and the Early Gay Movement in England: The Romance of Youth considers how writers associated with the Uranian poets, Order of Chaeronea, and British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology (BSSSP) used boys’ fiction to imagine a world in which same-sex romantic bonds could be possible.
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Uranian Children’s Literature and the Early Gay Movement in England: The Romance of Youth considers how writers associated with the Uranian poets, Order of Chaeronea, and British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology (BSSSP)—among the earliest efforts to organize on behalf of same-sex love in England beginning in the mid-1890s—used boys’ fiction to imagine a world in which same-sex romantic bonds could be possible. Some of the central figures in the early gay movement in England wrote for children or influenced others who did, and these juvenile writings both contributed to a larger discourse of homosexual emancipation and addressed the interests of Uranian youth. Uranian writers and members of the Order of Chaeronea and BSSSP recognized how the conditions of modern life posed distinct challenges to shaping the character of boys, and they used children’s literature and the rhetoric of chivalry to propose solutions to the boy problem and promote their vision of a homosexual future. This volume provides the first book-length account of the role of children’s literature in the early gay movement in England, including works by E.E. Bradford, George Cecil Ives, J.M. Barrie, Laurence Housman, Kenneth Ingram, and Beverley Nichols.
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Introduction. Boyhood and Youth in the Early Gay Movement in England 1. The Boy Problem, Chivalric Same-sex Love, and Uranian Children’s Literature 2. Following His Flag: E.E. Bradford’s Chivalric Boyhood Romances and Imperial Adventure Fiction 3. The Forbidden Loves of Fairyland: Laurence Housman’s Fairy Tales and the Fellow-Feeling of Childhood 4. Peter Pan and the Uranian Movement: J.M. Barrie, George Cecil Ives, and the New Ganymede 5. “I’m Not What I Thought I Was.”: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexual Futurism in Archibald Kenneth Ingram’s Boy Books 6. The Beginning of the End: Beverley Nichols’s Prelude, the Uranian School Story, and the Death of the Movement Conclusion. The Speculative Vision of Uranian Juvenile Romance and the Sacrifice of Boys
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