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.
Central to the struggle over the meaning of masculine desire was
the institutional politics of Oxford University, where Benjamin
Jowett, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and Walter Pater were
principal players. As a young man in the 1860s, Pater, the art
historian, essayist, and novelist, theorized a place for desire
between men in cultural formation and critique. Later, in a climate
of growing intolerance, he continued to affirm male-male desire but
with increasing attention to the social functions of homophobia.
Dellamora shows that discontent with conventional gender roles
animated efforts to reimagine the possibilities of masculine
existence.
Originally published in 1990.
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