Bertram Cope's Year
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Bertram Cope's Year
Henry Blake Fuller, novelist and short story writer (1857-1929)
This ebook presents «Bertram Cope's Year», from Henry Blake Fuller. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents
- About This Book
- Cope At A College Tea
- Cope Makes A Sunday Afternoon Call
- Cope Is Entertained
- Cope Is Considered
- Cope Is Considered Further
- Cope Dines And Tells About It
- Cope Under Scrutiny
- Cope Undertakes An Excursion
- Cope On The Edge Of Things
- Cope At His House Party
- Cope Enlivens The Country
- Cope Amidst Cross-purposes
- Cope Dines Again And Stays After
- Cope Makes An Evasion
- Cope Entertains Several Ladies
- Cope Goes A Sailing
- Cope Among Cross Currents
- Cope At The Call Of Duty
- Cope Finds Himself Committed
- Cope Has A Distressful Christmas
- Cope Safeguarded Calls Again
- Cope Shall Be Rescued
- Cope Regains His Freedom
- Cope In Danger Anew
- Cope In Double Danger
- Cope As A Go-between
- Cope Escapes A Snare
- Cope Absent From A Wedding
- Cope Again In The Country
- Cope As A Hero
- Cope Gets New Light On His Chum
- Cope Takes His Degree
- Cope In A Final View
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After New York publishing houses rejected the manuscript, probably on the grounds of its homosexual subtext, Fuller self-published this novel in 1919 to a devastating silence broken mainly by negative reviews. Although Edmund Wilson would later call it one of the best novels of its time, it has not been republished until now. The bittersweet core of the narrative, discreetly implied, is the homosexuality of its hero, Edmund Cope, a young professor who arrives at the Evanston, Ill.-based town of Churchton and is taken in by a society of genteel Midwestern eccentrics, including a widowed socialite, an aging bachelor who dreams of surrounding himself with entertaining young men and three young women who scheme for Cope's attention. Meanwhile, the self-centered, oblivious Cope writes letters to his absent friend, Arthur Lemoyne, and finally encourages Lemoyne to join him in Churchton. With a prose style as correct and detached as his protagonist, Fuller describes a series of seriocomic misunderstandings, including Cope's accidental marriage engagement, and flamboyant Lemoyne's banishment from the university after making a public romantic gesture toward a male cast member in a college drama. An amusing entertainment in its own right, this novel is also an important discovery for the gay literary canon, particularly (as essayist Andrew Solomon points out in his afterword) for its rare portrayal of day-to-day gay domestic life.