Mapping male sexuality : nineteenth-century England / edited by Jay Losey and William D. Brewer.

Contents pt. 1. Romantic. Industrial gender: manly men and cross-dressers in the Luddite movement / Kevin Binfield. Male rivalry and friendship in the novels of William Godwin / William D. Brewer. Disorienting the self: the figure of the white European man in Byron's Oriental tales and travels / Eric Daffron. "One half what I should say": Byron's gay narrator in Don Juan / Jonathan Gross. Writing between life and death: postmetaphysics and the psychosexual dynamics of elegy in Shelley's Adonais / Frederick Greene -- pt. 2. Victorian. Benjamin Disraeli, Judaism, and the legacy of William Beckford / Richard Dellamora. The private pleasures of Silas Marner / Donald E. Hall. Homosexuality at the closet threshold in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "Green tea" / André L. DeCuir. The seduction of celibacy: threats to male sexual identity in Charles Kingsley's writings / Laura Fasick. The comic promiscuity of W. S. Gilbert's dandy-aesthete / Dennis Denisoff. Disguising the self in Pater and Wilde / Jay Losey -- pt. 3. Late Victorian. "The bricklayer shall lay me": Edward Carpenter, Walt Whitman, and working-class "comradeship" / William A. Pannapacker. The impossibility of seduction in Jame's Roderick Hudson and The tragic muse / Christopher Lane. Bernard Shaw and the economy of the male self / Kathleen McDougall.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 343-364) and index.
LCCN 99053165
ISBN0838638287 (alk. paper)

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