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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... practices and the structure of personal relations and self - awareness.17 Critics of The Use of Pleasure have pointed out that had Foucault been able to read his sources in the Greek original , he might have been able to develop a more ...
... practices and the structure of personal relations and self - awareness.17 Critics of The Use of Pleasure have pointed out that had Foucault been able to read his sources in the Greek original , he might have been able to develop a more ...
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... practice that they iden- tified in turn as a form of violent assault.26 She remarks : With respect to homosocial / homosexual style , it seems to be possible to divide Victorian men among three rough categories according to class . The ...
... practice that they iden- tified in turn as a form of violent assault.26 She remarks : With respect to homosocial / homosexual style , it seems to be possible to divide Victorian men among three rough categories according to class . The ...
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... practices and speech were identified with crime and prostitution . As he emphasizes : “ All male homosexual activities were illegal between 1885 and 1967. ” 32 In approaching sexual relations between men of whatever classes , one needs ...
... practices and speech were identified with crime and prostitution . As he emphasizes : “ All male homosexual activities were illegal between 1885 and 1967. ” 32 In approaching sexual relations between men of whatever classes , one needs ...
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... practices are more useful than male - 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 ...
... practices are more useful than male - 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 ...
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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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