John W M Hallock. The American Byro...
John W M Hallock. The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck. Madison: U of Wisconsin P 2000 226 pp ISBN 0-299-16800-X $5000 cloth; ISBN 0-299-16804-2 $1995 paper. This splendid biographical essay explores the life and numbers of Fitz-Greene Halleck (8 July 1790-19 November 1867) against the shifting sands of nineteenth-century history, literature, and sexuality. allowing The American Byron shows a concise and judicious summary of the changing understandings of sexual relations between men from colonial time until the existing studies on the ...
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