Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian AestheticismBeginning 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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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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| Title | Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism |
| Author | Richard Dellamora |
| Publisher | UNC Press Books, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0807842672, 9780807842676 |
| Length | 276 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Men's Studies |
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