Preface1. Aesthete and Effeminatus
2. Victorian Manhood and the Warrior Ideal
3. The Socratic Eros
4. The Higher Sodomy
Works Cited
Index
An exceptionally clear-headed and far-reaching analysis....
Beautifully written and argued with subtlety, the book is
indispensable for students of Victorian literature, culture, gender
studies, and the nature of social change.
*Choice*
Dowling's compact and intelligently argued study is concerned with
the late-Victorian emergence of homosexuality as an identity rather
than as an activity.... This identity was formed out of notions of
Hellenism current in mid-century Oxford that were held to be lofty
and ennobling and even a kind of substitute for a waning
Christianity.
*Nineteenth-Century Literature*
This book presents a detailed and knowledgeable account of such
factors as the Oxford Movement and the influence of such Victorian
dons as Benjamin Jowett and Walter Pater and the evolving
evaluations of Classical Greece, its mores and morals. It is also
enhanced by an analysis of Greek terminology with homosexual
connotations, as to be found, for instance, in Plato.
*Lambda Book Report*
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