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The passions of John Addington Symonds /

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The first critical analysis to embrace a wide and representative selection of John Addington Symonds's work, beyond his famous essays. It explores Symonds as a complex thinker, with an ambitious vision of the queerness of the world itself, and follows his engagement with the art and literature...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butler, Shane, 1970- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Symonds, John Addington, > 1840-1893.
Symonds, John Addington, > 1840-1893
Fairy Tales.
Lesbian Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Titlepage
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: On the Surface
  • 1 That One Word: Byronic Anticipations of Symonds
  • 2 Dante's Mask: Photography, Tuberculosis, and Hell
  • 3 Homer's Deep: Ancient Greece and Reciprocal Love
  • 4 Symonds's Renaissance: Sensuous Surfaces and Hegelian Limits
  • 5 Animi Figura: Symonds, Stevenson, and the Divided Self
  • 6 Queer Origins: Myths of Childhood, Before Freud
  • 7 Sex Scenes: Symonds in London
  • 8 Queer Sensibilities: Symonds, James, Pater, and Wilde
  • 9 Electric Blue: Symonds on Venice
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index