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Victorian Sexual Dissidence
from: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 820.9353
EAN: 9780226142265
ISBN: 0226142264
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 338
Publication Date: June 01, 1999
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Studio: University Of Chicago Press
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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.
This volume will be essential reading for students of British literary and cultural history as well as for those interested in feminist, gay, and lesbian studies.
Contributors are: Oliver Buckton, Richard Dellamora, Dennis Denisoff, Regenia Gagnier, Eric Haralson, Andrew Hewitt, Christopher Lane, Thaïs Morgan, Yopie Prins, Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Julia Saville, Robert Sulcer, Jr., Martha Vicinus.
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Rating: - A Decade of Distinction.
The author Richard Dellamora is a Victorian Scholar who offers a rich variety of Victorian gender studies in this book. I bought the book because I am doing my Thesis on Michael Field and this book has some excellent points and well done research as well as new thoughts both on Michael Field, and others, to include Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, George Eliot, and other Victorian writers.
Although this book has been written by an expert, it does not mean one has to be an expert to enjoy the book. Anyone interested in the Victorian fin de siecle to include but not limited to literature, gender study, and unconventionality can easily read and enjoy this work.
Just to name a few of the Victorian experts who have essays in this book are Regenia Gagnier, Christopher Lane, Thais Morgan, and Yopie Prins.
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