"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...

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1. Verfasser:	Baldwin, Peter C., 1962- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
Schlagworte:	Warren, S. Edward > (Samuel Edward), > 1831-1909. 1800-1899 Gay college teachers > Biography. Christian gay men > Biography. Professeurs homosexuels (Enseignement supérieur) > Biographies. Homosexuels masculins chrétiens > Biographies. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. Christian gay men Gay college teachers New York (State) > 19th century > History. New York (État) > 19e siècle > Histoire. New York (State) Biographies History
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Zusammenfassung:	"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.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 188 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	1438479964 9781438479965