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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... practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny , a hermaph- roditism of the soul . The sodomite had been a temporary aberration ; the homosexual was now a species . ' As I attempt to show , however , the implication of questions ...
... practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny , a hermaph- roditism of the soul . The sodomite had been a temporary aberration ; the homosexual was now a species . ' As I attempt to show , however , the implication of questions ...
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... practice - anal copulation with other men — that he sees as setting him in opposition to ( male ) institutions of the day . Moreover , in writing for publication , the writer of Don Leon envisages an assemblage , possibly even a ...
... practice - anal copulation with other men — that he sees as setting him in opposition to ( male ) institutions of the day . Moreover , in writing for publication , the writer of Don Leon envisages an assemblage , possibly even a ...
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... practices , relationships , and fantasies . To this end , drawing distinctions among practices and the conscious- ness that attends them is crucial . Gay historians and theorists like Alan Bray have considered the ways in which sexual ...
... practices , relationships , and fantasies . To this end , drawing distinctions among practices and the conscious- ness that attends them is crucial . Gay historians and theorists like Alan Bray have considered the ways in which sexual ...
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... practice impli- cated in nineteenth - century Yankee capitalism and imperialism ; instead Melville valorizes masturbation and mutual masturbation as expressions of desire between men . Only in a late poem , " After the Pleasure Party ...
... practice impli- cated in nineteenth - century Yankee capitalism and imperialism ; instead Melville valorizes masturbation and mutual masturbation as expressions of desire between men . Only in a late poem , " After the Pleasure Party ...
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... practices , discourses , and in- stitutions that lend significance ( value , meaning , and affect ) to the events of the world.14 In de Lauretis's view , the ground of experience is neither something bio- logical nor intrinsic nor ...
... practices , discourses , and in- stitutions that lend significance ( value , meaning , and affect ) to the events of the world.14 In de Lauretis's view , the ground of experience is neither something bio- logical nor intrinsic nor ...
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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