The Author: Terry L. Meyers received his B.A. from Lawrence University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. A specialist in Victorian poetry, he is Professor of English at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
This edition of two recently discovered works by William Sharp (a.k.a. Fiona Macleod) not only adds to the canon of a fascinating figure in literary Pre-Raphaelitism, but also helps flesh out sexual identity in the Victorian Age. Meyers' edition is an important one for all students of Victorian poetry and culture, especially those interested in gay and gender studies. (Jerome J. McGann, John Stewart Bryan Professor of English, University of Virginia) One of the most fascinating of all late Victorian figures, William Sharp, writing in an ambi-sexual mode both as himself and as the female Fiona Macleod, has not until now been sufficiently acknowledged. Terry Meyers' retrieval of two hitherto lost works and his appraisal of Sharp/Macleod, from fresh angles, stress the jumbled nature of sexual boundaries among the Victorians from the Pre-Raphaelites to Yeats. (Robert L. Peters, Professor Emeritus of English, University of California, Irvine)
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