Victorian sexual dissidence / edited by Richard Dellamora.

Other author Dellamora, Richard.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Descriptionvi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
English literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Gay people's writings, English--History and criticism.
Sex customs in literature.
Lesbians in literature.
Gay men in literature.

Contents "Still burning from this strangling embrace": Vernon Lee on desire and aesthetics / Kathy Psomiades -- Greek Maenads, Victorian spinsters / Yopie Prins -- The adolescent boy: fin-de-siècle femme fatale? / Martha Vicinus -- Victorian effeminacies / Thaïs Morgan -- Production, reproduction, and pleasure in Victorian aesthetics and economics / Regenia Gagnier -- "Men of my own sex": genius, sexuality, and George Du Maurier's artists / Dennis Denisoff -- "Desire without limit": dissident confession in Oscar Wilde's De Profundis / Oliver Buckton -- The elusive queerness of Henry James's "Queer comrade": reading Gabriel Nash of The Tragic Muse / Eric Haralson -- George Santayana and the beauty of friendship / Christopher Lane -- Ten percent: poetry and pathology / Robert Sulcer -- The romance of boys bathing: poetic precedents and respondents to the paintings of Henry Scott Tuke / Julia Saville -- The dance of life: choreographing sexual dissidence in the early twentieth century / Andrew Hewitt.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98044262
ISBN0226142264 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0226142272 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR468.H65 V53 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold