The Passions of John Addington Symonds (Hardcover)

John Addington Symonds (Bristol 1840 - Rome 1893) was one of Victorian Britain's most prolific authors, with works that included poems, translations, travel essays, and scholarly studies on topics ranging from classical literature to the Renaissance to the poetry of his contemporaries. Today, however, he is usually remembered for his long unpublished Memoirs, a major early monument of queer life-writing, and for two privately printed, secretly circulated essays, one of which includes the earliest printed appearance in English of the word homosexual. This new word, first coined in German, has long provided a useful milestone for historians of sexuality charting the emergence not only of new typologies but of whole new regimes of knowledge. But what of the rest of Symonds's vast body of work? This book returns to Symonds, not as the origin of a now familiar history, but as a far more complex thinker, with an ambitious vision of the queerness of the world itself-and of what it means to live in it.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2022
Authors:	Shane Butler
Dimensions:	240 x 163 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-286693-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General
LSN:	0-19-286693-1
Barcode:	9780192866936

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