I The Early Years.- 1 Cannabis in the Ancient World.- 2 Hashish and the Arabs.- II The Hemp Era.- 3 Rope and Riches.- 4 Cannabis Comes to the New World.- III The Marihuana and Hashish Era.- 5 New Uses for the Old Hemp Plant.- 6 The Indian Hemp Drug Debate.- 7 The African Dagga Cultures.- 8 The Hashish Club.- 9 Hashish in America.- IV A Nation of Drug Takers.- 10 America's Drug Users.- 11 Reefer Racism.- 12 The Jazz Era.- 13 Outlawing Marihuana.- Epilogue.

Marihuana, the First Twelve Thousand Years

Offenbach's operas were a significant force for cultural change, both in his own time and in the decades to follow. In this book, Laurence Senelick demonstrates the ways in which this musical phenomenon took hold globally, with Offenbach's work offering an alternative, irreverent, sexualized view of life which audiences found liberating, both personally and socially. In the theatre, the composer also inspired cutting-edge innovations in stagecraft and design, and in this book, he is recognized as a major cultural influence, with an extensive impact on the spheres of literature, art, film, and even politics. Senelick argues that Offenbach's importance spread far beyond France, and that his provocative and entertaining works, often seen as being more style than substance, influenced numerous key artists, writers, and thinkers, and made a major contribution to the development of modern society.

Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture

Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Indiscreet anatomies and protogay aesthetes in Roderick Hudson and The Europeans 2. The elusive queerness of 'queer comrades': The Tragic Muse and 'The Author of 'Beltraffio" 3. The Turn of the Screw, or: The Dispossessed Hearts of Little Gentlemen 4. Masculinity 'changed and queer' in The Ambassadors 5. Gratifying 'the eternal boy in us all': Willa Cather, Henry James and Oscar Wilde 6. 'The other half is the man': the queer modern triangle of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and Henry James Coda: 'Nobody is alike Henry James': Stein, James and queer futurity Notes Bibliography Index.

Henry James and Queer Modernity

Listening to What the Ear Demands: Langston Hughes and His Critics

"The Famous Lady Lovers:" African American Women and Same-Sex Desire from Reconstruction to World War II.

Selected writings of Gertrude Stein

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway.... He did a lazy sway.... To the tune o' those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano moan with melody. O Blues! Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool. Sweet Blues! Coming from a black man's soul. O Blues! In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan"Ain't got nobody in all this world, Ain't got nobody but ma self. I's gwine to quit ma frownin' And put ma troubles on the shelf."

Carl Van Vechten

Papers

Selected writings of Gertrude Stein

The Weary Blues

Remember me to Harlem : the letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964

Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten