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Matthiessen, Henry James: The Major Phase (New York, 1944), p.
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Cadden quotes Matthiessen at the opening of American Renaissance endorsing the view that ‘true scholarship’ must be ‘for the good and enlightenment of all the people, not for the pampering of a class’ 1 - a view which seems linked to Matthiessen’s Christian Socialist beliefs and activities - but he lets this drop his emphasis falls, in contrast, despite Matthiessen’s hope that he and Cheney might represent ‘hope for a spirit of brotherhood’, on the sense that ‘tragically he could not see himself as part of a collective sexual identity smaller than “all of the people”’. Matthiessen’s homosexuality only fully emerged nearly three decades after his death, with the publication of his love-letters to the painter Russell Cheney his enormously influential critical writing is extremely discreet about private matters. M.: The Private Life of American Renaissance’ - where in effect he laments the accuracy of that comma separating ‘great’ from ‘homosexual’. One of the editors, Michael Cadden, has an interesting meditation on the great, homosexual, critic F.
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Perhaps I can best indicate some of the troubles I want to raise in this essay by quoting from a 1990 volume entitled Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism.