Victorian Sexual Dissidence
338 pages, 10 halftones 6 x 9
©
1999
Cloth $60.00
ISBN: 9780226142265
Published June 1999
Paper $24.00
ISBN: 9780226142272
Published June 1999
Acknowledgments Introduction by Richard Dellamora Part One: Re-Gendering Aestheticism 1. "Still Burning from the Strangling Embrace": Vernon Lee on Desure and Aesthetics Kathy Psomiades 2. Greek Maenads, Victorian Spinsters Yopie Prins 3. The Adolescent Boy: Fin-de-Siècle Femme Fatale? Martha Vicinus Part Two: Revisionary Decadence 4. Victorian Effeminacies Thaïs Morgan 5. Producation, Reproduction, and Pleasure in Victorian Aesthetics and Economics Regenia Gagnier 6. "Men of My Own Sex": Genius, Sexuality, and George Du Maureir's Artists Dennis Denisoff 7. "Desire without Limit": Dissident Confession in Oscar Wilde's De Profundis Oliver Buckton Part Three: Dissident Aesthetics 8. The Elusive Queerness of Henry James's "Queer Comrade": Reading Gabriel Nash of The Tragic Muse Eric Haralson 9. George Santayana and the Beauty of Friendship Christopher Lane 10. Ten Percent: Poetry and Pathology Robert Sulcer 11. The Romance of Boys Bathing: Poetic Precendents and Respondents to the Paintings of Henry Scott Tuke Julia Saville 12. The Dance of Life: Choreographing Sexual Dissidence in the Early Twentieth Century Andrew Hewitt List of Contributors Index
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