Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism

by Richard Dellamora

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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. Central to the struggle over the meaning of masculine desire was the institutional politics of Oxford University, where Benjamin Jowett, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807842672

ISBN13:9780807842676

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.88 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory English Literature Europe Gay & Lesbian Gender Studies History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature

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