Table of Contents
Introduction: Queer Short Stories in Nineteenth-Century America Christopher Looby vii
Editor's Note xxv
Part I Queer Places
The Child's Champion (1841) Walt Whitman 3
A South-Sea Idyl (1869) Charles Warren Stoddard 13
The Haunted Valley (1871) Ambrose Bierce 24
Felipa (1876) Constance Fenimore Woolson 36
My Lorelei: A Heidelberg Romance (1880) Octave Thanet 56
Part II Queer Genders
The Bachelors (1836) Samuel L. Knapp 77
The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman (1857) Anonymous 94
Two Friends (1887) Mary Wilkins Freeman 109
How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson (c. 1900-1903) Mark Twain 122
Paul's Case: A Study in Temperament (1905) Willa Gather 138
Part III Queer Attachments
Twin-Love (1871) Bayard Taylor 159
Out of the Deeps (1872) Elizabeth Stoddard 175
In the Tules (1895) Bret Harte 185
Martha's Lady (1897) Sarah Orne Jewell 203
The Heart's Desire (1908) Sui Sin Far 220
Part IV Queer Things
I and My Chimney (1856) Herman Melville 225
The Candy Country (1885) Louisa May Alcott 253
Dave's Neckliss (1889) Charles W Chesnutt 267
Schopenhauer in the Air (1894) Sadakichi Hartmann 279
Lilacs (1896) Kate Chopin 283
Notes 295
Acknowledgments 313