%0 Journal Article
%T From Whitman¡¯s Nationalism to Stoddard¡¯s Expatriatism:
%A Mark John Isola
%J E-Sharp
%D 2005
%I University of Glasgow
%X American writers Walt Whitman and Charles Warren Stoddard exchanged a series of letters between 1867 and 1870. These five letters have not been critically evaluated for the insight they offer into the emergence of a gay subjectivity. Once established, this insight holds the potential to contribute to a productive analysis of an under analyzed aspect of American letters - a modern gay male American aesthetic. The specificity of this subjectivity has long been elided, for between these two correspondents there are significant differences, and this variance reveals a generational difference in the expression of an American male-to-male desire, and as this difference appears, a nascent modern gay male American subjectivity can be detected.
%U http://www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk/issue6/Isola.pdf