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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... Masculine desire : the sexual politics of Victorian aestheticism / by Richard Dellamora . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references . ISBN 0-8078-1882-8 ( alk . paper ) .— ISBN 0-8078-4267-2 ( pbk . : alk . paper ) 1. English ...
... Masculine desire : the sexual politics of Victorian aestheticism / by Richard Dellamora . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references . ISBN 0-8078-1882-8 ( alk . paper ) .— ISBN 0-8078-4267-2 ( pbk . : alk . paper ) 1. English ...
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... masculine and the feminine in oneself . Homosexuality ap- peared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny , a hermaph- roditism of the soul . The sodomite had ...
... masculine and the feminine in oneself . Homosexuality ap- peared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny , a hermaph- roditism of the soul . The sodomite had ...
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... masculine in the world . However , when one surveys a range of texts , one does find signs that men whom we might perceive to be homosexual exist well before the produc- tion of " the homosexual " in Foucault's sense of the term . Take ...
... masculine in the world . However , when one surveys a range of texts , one does find signs that men whom we might perceive to be homosexual exist well before the produc- tion of " the homosexual " in Foucault's sense of the term . Take ...
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... masculine desire , two questions have proven to be particularly provocative . The first of these is the question : What is the subject - position of a gay critique of desire between men in nineteenth- century literary texts ? While the ...
... masculine desire , two questions have proven to be particularly provocative . The first of these is the question : What is the subject - position of a gay critique of desire between men in nineteenth- century literary texts ? While the ...
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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