Queer Feelings: Love and Loss in the Letters of Horace Walpole

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This piece, by a major scholar of eighteenth-century queer history and the pre-eminent scholar of queer Walpole, will be a fine contribution to Humanities.  It is beautifully written, uses rich textual evidence primarily in the form of letters, and offers compelling insights into "queer feelings" as articulated in eighteenth-century relationships among men.  I have only the tiniest suggestions and comments:

1.  The "abstract" given here has been wrongly formatted as an abstract; it is actually the beginning of the article.  This needs to be fixed.
2. There are as few non-obvious "typos" in the form of missing or repeated words (e.g. lines 1, 32, 45, 403).  Careful proofreading will be needed.
3. I'd like to see some expansion of the paragraph that runs from lines 39 to 47:  justification for the claim that begins the paragraph and a little more explanation of the lst sentence of his paragraph, which I don't fully understand.
4. Occasionally the essay is a bit too much like the talk (e.g. line 146)--again, very minor stylistic change needed.
5. Transition needed when the text moves on line 186 to a discussion of Schuyler.
6. line 257-258 begs for some elaboration or justification.
7. line 406-410:  is this quoted material, and perhaps also lines 403-405?  Otherwise confusing.
8. The implied definition of "queerest" in line 500 seems to me in need of bolstering or explaining.
9. The "ending" gambit (line 645) seems a bit artificial.

I emphasize that these are tiny suggestions/observations.  The essay is otherwise ready for publication.  It is wonderfully rich and persuasive.

Author Response

I have answered all the comments and revised the article accordingly.

Reviewer 2 Report

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Author Response

I have answered all the comments and revised the article accordningly.