Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian AestheticismUNC Press Books, 1990 - 276 pages Beginning with Tennyson's In Memoriam and continuing by way of Hopkins and Swinburne to the novels of Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy, Richard Dellamora draws on journals, letters, censored texts, and pornography to examine the cultural construction o |
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... female rela- tionships . Later , Alfred Tennyson and Coventry Patmore in their poetry attempt to revise masculinity by reimagining marriage as a relation more nearly between equals . Hence efforts by male writers to refashion mascu ...
... female rela- tionships . Later , Alfred Tennyson and Coventry Patmore in their poetry attempt to revise masculinity by reimagining marriage as a relation more nearly between equals . Hence efforts by male writers to refashion mascu ...
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... female has trans- formed the study of Victorian culture and put under pressure the ques- tion of the specifically masculine character of writing by men during the period . Since the writer who has most forcefully addressed the question ...
... female has trans- formed the study of Victorian culture and put under pressure the ques- tion of the specifically masculine character of writing by men during the period . Since the writer who has most forcefully addressed the question ...
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... female - male desire . In addition , homophobia functions so as to produce a continuing need for men to subordinate women . Owens remarks : " By demonstrating that male homo- phobia is directed at both gay and straight men , and by ...
... female - male desire . In addition , homophobia functions so as to produce a continuing need for men to subordinate women . Owens remarks : " By demonstrating that male homo- phobia is directed at both gay and straight men , and by ...
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... female - centered , heterosexually determinate focus has been crucial to the wide attention that her work has received and to its influence on advanced criticism . By shifting the ground of consideration from psychological to social ...
... female - centered , heterosexually determinate focus has been crucial to the wide attention that her work has received and to its influence on advanced criticism . By shifting the ground of consideration from psychological to social ...
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... female intercourse insofar as they produce pleasure while avoiding the dangers of overpopulation , unwanted offspring , abortion , and infanticide . Again like Pater , he also speaks positively about love between teachers and students ...
... female intercourse insofar as they produce pleasure while avoiding the dangers of overpopulation , unwanted offspring , abortion , and infanticide . Again like Pater , he also speaks positively about love between teachers and students ...
Contents
Tennyson the Apostles and In Memoriam | 16 |
Spousal Love in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins | 42 |
Pater at Oxford in 1864 Old Mortality and Diaphaneite | 58 |
Poetic Perversities of A C Swinburne | 69 |
Hopkins Swinburne and the Whitmanian Signifier | 86 |
Arnold Winckelmann and Pater | 102 |
John Ruskin and the Character of Male Genius | 117 |
Leonardo Medusa and the Wish to Be Woman | 130 |
Theorizing Homophobia Analysis of Myth in Pater | 167 |
Homosexual Scandal and Compulsory Heterosexuality in the 1890s | 193 |
The Subject of Sexual Indifference | 218 |
Notes | 224 |
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The New Chivalry and Oxford Politics | 147 |
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