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1 online resource (x, 188 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker's struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life. Angel on a Freight Train examines the experiences of Samuel Edward Warren (1831-1909), a teacher and college professor in Troy, New York, who struggled to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life. Unlike twenty-first-century evangelicals who try to "pray the gay away," Warren discerned no fundamental conflict between his faith and his attraction to younger males. Growing up in the antebellum Northeast, in a culture that permitted and even celebrated emotional bonds between men, he strove to build emotionally intense relationships in many overlapping forms--friendship, pedagogy, evangelism, and romance--which allowed him to enjoy intimacy with little effort at concealment. However, as he passed into mature manhood and built a prestigious career, Warren began to feel that he should have grown out of romantic friendships, which he now feared had become emotionally and physically excessive. Based on Warren's deeply introspective and previously unexplored diaries, Angel on a Freight Train traces his youthful freedom and sensuality, his attempt to join with younger men in a spirit of loving mentorship, and, finally, the tortured introspection of a man whose age seemed to shut him out from an idyllic lost world. In the end, Warren came to believe rather sorrowfully in a radical division between his angelic, ideal self and what he called "the freight train of animal life below." Peter C. Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930 and Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930."--Publisher. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Words, Flesh, and Spirit -- Chapter 1. Friendship -- Sweet Tones of Innocence -- A Little Record of the Events -- In Each Other's Arms -- Shuffled About -- Frolicking -- Chapter 2. Teaching -- Harmony and Affection -- Ardor in the Cause of Learning -- Forlorn Lack of Mutual Adaptation -- Too Much Familiarity -- Chapter 3. Evangelism -- Quite at Home in the Congregational Church -- Overflowing with Holy Affections -- Sweet Willie -- The Use of the Senses in Religion -- Beyond My Control -- Chapter 4. Fatherhood -- |
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A Single Life without Hope of Leaving a Name -- The Things Which Remain -- Reveries of a Pelted Turtle -- A Universal Father -- The Father and the Son -- Thoroughly Revised -- Epilogue: The Cross, the Grave, the Skies -- A Teacher without Students -- I Have Made My Bed in the Darkness -- Abbreviations in Notes -- Notes -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Warren, S. Edward (Samuel Edward), 1831-1909.
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Gay college teachers -- Biography.
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Gay college teachers. |
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Biographies.
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Christian gay men -- Biography.
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Christian gay men. |
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New York (State) -- 19th century -- History.
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New York (State) |
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19th century |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Baldwin, Peter C., 1962- Angel on a freight train. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020] 1438479956 (OCoLC)1154555395 |
| ISBN |
1438479964 (electronic book) |
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9781438479965 (electronic book) |
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1438479956 (hardcover) |
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9781438479958 (hardcover) |
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9781438479941 (paperback) |
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1438479948 (paperback) |
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