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.
Victorian
Sexual Dissidence 
Nineteenth
Century Writings on Homosexuality : A Sourcebook 
