Victorian Sexual Dissidence

- Contents

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 ProfundisOliver Buckton
Part Three: Dissident Aesthetics
8. The Elusive Queerness of Henry James's "Queer Comrade": Reading Gabriel Nash of The Tragic MuseEric 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
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature | General Criticism and Critical Theory
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