SOURCE: "'The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes': Pederasty, Domesticity, and Capitalism in Horatio Alger," in Representations. No. 19, 1987, pp. 87-110.
In the following essay, Moon discusses Alger's blend of homoeroticism and capitalist nostalgia.
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