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Bertram Cope's Year

Bertram Cope's Year
Author: Henry Blake Fuller
Price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 146040050X
ISBN-13: 9781460400500
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Delivery: BibliU Reader
Duration: Lifetime

Description

In 1918, when Henry Blake Fuller was 62 years old, he completed the manuscript of a novel, Bertram Cope's Year. Though Fuller was well known as an accomplished realist and had published twelve previous novels, this work was his first published fiction to address the topic of homosexuality. In the novel Bertram Cope, a handsome young college student, is befriended by Medora Phillips, a wealthy older woman who tries to match him with several eligible young women. However, Bertram is emotionally attached only to his friend and housemate, Arthur Lemoyne. The novel's portrayal of their friendship is subtle, but has clear overtones of sexual attraction. Appendices focus on the novel's composition, reception, and place in contemporary discourses about attraction between men.