CONTENTS

Introduction: Queer Short Stories in Nineteenth-Century America

Christopher Looby

Editor’s Note

PART I. QUEER PLACES

The Child’s Champion (1841)

Walt Whitman

A South-Sea Idyl (1869)

Charles Warren Stoddard

The Haunted Valley (1871)

Ambrose Bierce

Felipa (1876)

Constance Fenimore Woolson

My Lorelei: A Heidelberg Romance (1880)

Octave Thanet

PART II. QUEER GENDERS

The Bachelors (1836)

Samuel L. Knapp

The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman (1857)

Anonymous

Two Friends (1887)

Mary Wilkins Freeman

How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson (c. 1900–1903)

Mark Twain

Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament (1905)

Willa Cather

PART III. QUEER ATTACHMENTS

Twin-Love (1871)

Bayard Taylor

Out of the Deeps (1872)

Elizabeth Stoddard

In the Tules (1895)

Bret Harte

Martha’s Lady (1897)

Sarah Orne Jewett

The Heart’s Desire (1908)

Sui Sin Far

PART IV. QUEER THINGS

I and My Chimney (1856)

Herman Melville

The Candy Country (1885)

Louisa May Alcott

Dave’s Neckliss (1889)

Charles W. Chesnutt

Schopenhauer in the Air (1894)

Sadakichi Hartmann

Lilacs (1896)

Kate Chopin

Notes

Acknowledgments