Victorian sexual dissidence
By: edited by Richard Dellamora.
Contributors: Dellamora, Richard.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Gays' writings, English -- History and criticism.; Sex customs in literature.; Lesbians in literature.; Gay men in literature.
Description: "Recent critical and historical work on the late-Victorian period has furnished a vocabulary for discussing gender and sexuality. These popular terms include categories such as homo/hetero, patriarchal/feminist, and masculine/effeminate. This collection exploits this framework - while refining and resisting it in places - to show how certain Victorians imagined difference in ways that continue to challenge us today.

One essay, for example, traces the remarkable feminist appropriation of male-identified fields of study, such as Classical philology. Others address the validation of male bodies as objects of desire in writing, painting, and emergent modernist choreography. The writings shed light on the diverse interests served by a range of cultural practitioners and on the complex ways in which the late Victorians invented themselves as modern subjects."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.