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Henry Blake Fuller

Betram Cope's Year Hardback Book

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Pioneering 1919 queer literature
Early American homosexual novel
Classic academic campus story
Humorous yet profound narrative
Groundbreaking LGBTQ+ historical fiction
Description

Bertram Copes Year (1919) is a novel by Henry Blake Fuller. Having established himself as a leading figure in Chicagos burgeoning literary scene, Fullera pioneer of American realist fictionproduced this late masterpiece, often considered one the nations earliest homosexual novels. Both profound and funny, Bertram Copes Year is a classic campus story that critiques the social lives of academics while emphasizing the struggles of its intelligent young hero. "Of course, there is no more reason for assuming that every man will make a good lover than that every woman will make a good mother or a good housekeeper. Or that every adult male will make a good citizen....I dont feel that Im an especially creditable one. So it runs. We ground our general life on theories, and then the facts come up and slap us in the face." Where theories fail, experience is all that remains. For Bertram Cope, a promising young English instructor, this truth proves both enticing and dangeroussearching for recognition, he suffers from selfdoubt searching for love, he finds romance wherever he turns. As he balances his work alongside affairs with older men and women, as well as some fleeting matches with women his own age, Bertram finds himself longing for his old friend Arthur Lemoyne, perhaps the only person who has always treated him as human. Hilarious and heartfelt, Bertram Copes Year is a groundbreaking work of queer literature that continues to entertain and inform over a century after it was...

SKU: M9781513209265
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Binding: Hardback;204 pages; Publisher: Mint Editions; Classification: FA; Weight: 440 g; Dimensions: 134 x 211 x 19

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