Masculine Desire The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism |
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| Author:
| Dellamora, Richard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-4267-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 1990 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.