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Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford.

Dowling, Linda C.

Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (192 pages)

Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Aesthete and Effeminatus -- 2. Victorian Manhood and the Warrior Ideal -- 3. The Socratic Eros -- 4. The Higher Sodomy -- Works Cited -- Index.

Dowling offers the first detailed account of Oxford Hellenism, the Victorian philosophical and literary movement that anticipated the modern possibility of homosexuality as a positive social identity.

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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Greek philology -- Study and teaching -- England -- Oxford -- History -- 19th century.
Classicism -- England -- Oxford -- History -- 19th century.
Gay men -- England -- Oxford -- History -- 19th century.
Oxford (England) -- Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

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