In 1901, Sarah Orne Jewett declared her “best story” to be A Marsh Island, a novel about queer kinship. Written a few years into her decades-long companionship with Annie Fields, the novel envisions the saltmarsh as a figure for valuing both individuality and a porous openness to the gifts of others.
The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
Clayton Howard
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512824742
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Paperback
392 Pages
The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac chronicles the rise of sexual privacy as a fulcrum of American cultural politics, focusing on the history of gay rights in the San Francisco Bay Area from World War II to the dawn of the culture wars in the 1970s and exploring how government policies shaped the cultural politics of the moderate suburbs.
Charles Warren Stoddard’s only novel features a protagonist who is an aspiring writer living among the Bohemian artistic circles of nineteenth-century San Francisco—the same circles Stoddard himself inhabited. This Q19 volume includes three of Stoddard’s Hawaiian travel sketches, a critical introduction, and extensive annotations.
