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    Victorian Sexual Dissidence
    Victorian Sexual Dissidence
    Victorian Sexual Dissidence
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    Victorian Sexual Dissidence

    By Richard Dellamora

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateApr 8, 2019
    ISBN9780226924793
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