Before queer theory : Victorian aestheticism and the self / Dustin Friedman.

By:

Friedman, Dustin, 1982- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781421431499
1421431491

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DDC classification:

820.9/92066409033 23

LOC classification:

PR468.A33 F75 2019eb

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Contents:

Homoerotic subjectivity in Walter Pater's early essays -- Styles of survival in Pater's later writings -- Oscar Wilde's lyric performativity -- Vernon Lee and the specter of lesbian history -- Queering the object: aesthetic indifference in Michael Field's poetry.

Summary: "This book of literary criticism, about the historical relationship of art, sexuality, and the self, demonstrates that Victorian aestheticism was a key forerunner to modern queer theory. By theorizing aestheticism through Hegel's philosophy, the author argues that Victorian aesthetes imagined that encountering art and literature could help to shape a person's queer sense of self"-- Provided by publisher

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"This book of literary criticism, about the historical relationship of art, sexuality, and the self, demonstrates that Victorian aestheticism was a key forerunner to modern queer theory. By theorizing aestheticism through Hegel's philosophy, the author argues that Victorian aesthetes imagined that encountering art and literature could help to shape a person's queer sense of self"-- Provided by publisher