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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... occur within “ small rural communities , ” within the household , within some master - servant , teacher - pupil , or other relations where such acts seem to reflect in an unself - conscious way patterns of customary power - so much so ...
... occur within “ small rural communities , ” within the household , within some master - servant , teacher - pupil , or other relations where such acts seem to reflect in an unself - conscious way patterns of customary power - so much so ...
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... occur immediately before ( and be met by ) a strong counterblow is no surprise . More gener- ally , and as I have already indicated , my discussion depends on attempts to ascertain masculine experience during the period , experience not ...
... occur immediately before ( and be met by ) a strong counterblow is no surprise . More gener- ally , and as I have already indicated , my discussion depends on attempts to ascertain masculine experience during the period , experience not ...
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... occurs not directly but as mediated through a woman ; in Between Men she usually focuses on novels that deal with a triangulated relationship involving two men and a woman . Given this stance , she is often most persuasive when ( as in ...
... occurs not directly but as mediated through a woman ; in Between Men she usually focuses on novels that deal with a triangulated relationship involving two men and a woman . Given this stance , she is often most persuasive when ( as in ...
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... occur in the late - Victorian Radical press or in the statements of Radical spokesmen . In considering these sources , one has to distinguish between a shared sense of anger at the injustices inflicted on workers and their skewed , at ...
... occur in the late - Victorian Radical press or in the statements of Radical spokesmen . In considering these sources , one has to distinguish between a shared sense of anger at the injustices inflicted on workers and their skewed , at ...
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... occurs in John Stuart Mill's On Liberty ( 1859 ) . There Mill , arguing against the persecution of minorities as a sop to popular anxiety , reminds his readers that Marcus Aurelius rationalized persecution of the Christians on the ...
... occurs in John Stuart Mill's On Liberty ( 1859 ) . There Mill , arguing against the persecution of minorities as a sop to popular anxiety , reminds his readers that Marcus Aurelius rationalized persecution of the Christians on 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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