Bertram Cope's year / Henry Blake Fuller ; afterward by Andrew Solomon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Fiction.

Gay men.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Turtle Point Press, [1998]

Summary:

In 1919, when he was sixty-two, Henry Blake Fuller published Bertram Cope's Year. This audacious book with several homosexual characters revolves around a young English instructor in a middle western university town patterned on Evanston, Illinois. Rejected by every New York publisher, Fuller self-published and the book received scant notice or unintelligent reviews. Discouraged, Fuller burned the original manuscript. It took ten years before he ventured to publish another novel.

James Huneker, Fuller's contemporary, loved Bertram Cope's Year. He read it three times and wrote to Fuller, "Its portraiture and psychological strokes fill me with envy and joy ... you are the implacable Stendhal of the lake!"

Fifty years later, critic Edmund Wilson, in a New Yorker article on Henry Blake Fuller entitled "The Art of Making It Flat," called Bertram Cope's Year Fuller's best book. He wrote, "It has a philosophic theme ... which raises it well above the fiction of social surfaces of the school of William Dean Howells."

This is the first republication of Bertram Cope's Year since 1919.

Contents:

1. Cope at a College Tea 1

2. Cope Makes a Sunday Afternoon Call 12

3. Cope Is "Entertained" 20

4. Cope Is Considered 27

5. Cope Is Considered Further 36

6. Cope Dines

and Tells About It 45

7. Cope Under Scrutiny 54

8. Cope Undertakes an Excursion 62

9. Cope on the Edge of Things 70

10. Cope at His House Party 78

11. Cope Enlivens the Country 87

12. Cope Amidst Cross-Purposes 96

13. Cope Dines Again

and Stays After 104

14. Cope Makes an Evasion 116

15. Cope Entertains Several Ladies 126

16. Cope Goes A-Sailing 137

17. Cope Among Cross-Currents 147

18. Cope at the Call of Duty 157

19. Cope Finds Himself Committed 169

20. Cope Has a Distressful Christmas 177

21. Cope, Safeguarded, Calls Again 187

22. Cope Shall Be Rescued 197

23. Cope Regains His Freedom 205

24. Cope in Danger Anew 212

25. Cope in Double Danger 221

26. Cope as a Go-Between 228

27. Cope Escapes a Snare 236

28. Cope Absent from a Wedding 244

29. Cope Again in the Country 251

30. Cope as a Hero 259

31. Cope Gets New Light on His Chum 266

32. Cope Takes His Degree 273

33. Cope in a Final View 280.

Notes:

Reprint of a novel originally self-published by the author in 1919. "The first republication...since 1919"--note on back cover.

ISBN:

1885983263

OCLC:

39163967