| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 389 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: On the Surface -- 1 That One Word: Byronic Anticipations of Symonds -- 2 Dante's Mask: Photography, Tuberculosis, and Hell -- 3 Homer's Deep: Ancient Greece and Reciprocal Love -- 4 Symonds's Renaissance: Sensuous Surfaces and Hegelian Limits -- 5 Animi Figura: Symonds, Stevenson, and the Divided Self -- 6 Queer Origins: Myths of Childhood, Before Freud -- 7 Sex Scenes: Symonds in London -- 8 Queer Sensibilities: Symonds, James, Pater, and Wilde -- 9 Electric Blue: Symonds on Venice -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
The first critical analysis to embrace a wide and representative selection of John Addington Symonds's work, beyond his famous essays. It explores Symonds as a complex thinker, with an ambitious vision of the queerness of the world itself, and follows his engagement with the art and literature of classical antiquity |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-377) and index |
| Subject |
Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893.
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Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893. |
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literature.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
019269250X |
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9780192692504 |
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9780191957871 |
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0191957879 |
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