...Eric Savoy Duke University Press 2008 The GLQ Archive Arvin’s Melville, Martin’s Arvin Eric Savoy Back in the Day Twenty years ago, when I was finishing my dissertation, I asked Robert K. Martin if he had ever considered editing a collection of gay American writing...

... of countless others as well. Both Eric Savoy’s and Christopher Nealon’s essays provide what Whitman might have called “a backward glance” at the gay literary history Martin helped bring to institutional legitimacy. In “Arvin’s Melville, Martin’s Arvin,” Savoy focuses on Martin’s important 2004...