FoundlingsWhat is it like to feel historical? In Foundlings Christopher Nealon analyzes texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth centurypoems by Hart Crane, novels by Willa Cather, gay male physique magazines, and lesbian pulp fiction. Nealon brings these diverse works together by highlighting a coming of age narrative he calls foundlinga term for queer disaffiliation from and desire for family, nation, and history. The