Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford
Linda C. Dowling, "Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford"
English | ISBN: 0801481708 | 1997 | 192 pages | PDF | 44 MB
English | ISBN: 0801481708 | 1997 | 192 pages | PDF | 44 MB
"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
"Dowling's study is an exceptionally clear-headed and far-reaching analysis of the way Greek studies operated as a 'homosexual code' during the great age of English university reform…. 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
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