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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Dellamora, Richard. Masculine desire. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1990 (OCoLC)644677819 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Dellamora |
ISBN: | 0807818828 9780807818824 0807842672 9780807842676 |
OCLC Number: | 20168792 |
Description: | ix, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : Masculine desire and the question of the subject -- ch. 1. Tennyson, the apostles, and In memoriam -- ch. 2. "Spousal love" in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins -- ch. 3. Pater at Oxford in 1864 : old mortality and "Diaphaneitè" -- ch. 4. Poetic perversities of A.C. Swinburne -- Excursus : Hopkins, Swinburne, and the Whitmanian signifier -- ch. 5. Arnold, Winckelmann, and Pater -- ch. 6. John Ruskin and the character of male genius -- ch. 7. Leonardo, Medusa, and the wish to be woman -- ch. 8. "The new chivalry" and Oxford politics -- ch. 9. Theorizing homophobia : analysis of myth in Pater -- ch. 10. Homosexual scandal and compulsory heterosexuality in the 1890s -- Afterword : The subject of sexual (in)difference. |
Responsibility: | by Richard Dellamora. |
Abstract:
Beginning 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 of masculinity in Victorian literature.
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