{"product_id":"angel-on-a-freight-train-a-story-of-faith-and-queer-desire-in-nineteenth-century-america-paperback","title":"Angel on a Freight Train: A Story of Faith and Queer Desire in Nineteenth-Century America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter C. Baldwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of a nineteenth-century New Yorker's struggle to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngel on a Freight Train\u003c\/i\u003e examines the experiences of Samuel Edward Warren (1831-1909), a teacher and college professor in Troy, New York, who struggled to reconcile his same-sex erotic desires with his commitment to a Christian life. Unlike twenty-first-century evangelicals who try to \"pray the gay away,\" Warren discerned no fundamental conflict between his faith and his attraction to younger males. Growing up in the antebellum Northeast, in a culture that permitted and even celebrated emotional bonds between men, he strove to build emotionally intense relationships in many overlapping forms-friendship, pedagogy, evangelism, and romance-which allowed him to enjoy intimacy with little effort at concealment. However, as he passed into mature manhood and built a prestigious career, Warren began to feel that he should have grown out of romantic friendships, which he now feared had become emotionally and physically excessive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on Warren's deeply introspective and previously unexplored diaries, \u003ci\u003eAngel on a Freight Train\u003c\/i\u003e traces his youthful freedom and sensuality, his attempt to join with younger men in a spirit of loving mentorship, and, finally, the tortured introspection of a man whose age seemed to shut him out from an idyllic lost world. In the end, Warren came to believe rather sorrowfully in a radical division between his angelic, ideal self and what he called \"the freight train of animal life below.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter C. Baldwin \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDomesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50408557936877,"sku":"9781438479941","price":36.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/angel-on-a-freight-train-a-story-of-faith-and-queer-desire-in-nineteenth-century-america-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}