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    Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford

    Linda C. Dowling (Author)

    9780801481703

    Paperback / softback, published 3 January 1997

    192 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.454 kg

    An exceptionally clear-headed and far-reaching analysis.... 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)

    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)

    This book presents a detailed and knowledgeable account of such factors as the Oxford Movement and the influence of such Victorian dons as Benjamin Jowett and Walter Pater and the evolving evaluations of Classical Greece, its mores and morals. It is also enhanced by an analysis of Greek terminology with homosexual connotations, as to be found, for instance, in Plato.

    (Lambda Book Report)

    "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

    "Hellenism and Homosexuality... presents a detailed and knowledgeable... account of such factors as the Oxford Movement and the influence of such Victorian dons as Jowett and Pater and the evolving evaluations of Classical Greece, its mores and morals. It is also enhanced by [an] analysis of Greek terminology with homosexual connotations, as to be found, for instance, in Plato's Republic."—Lambda Book Report

    Preface1. Aesthete and Effeminatus
    2. Victorian Manhood and the Warrior Ideal
    3. The Socratic Eros
    4. The Higher Sodomy

    Works Cited
    Index
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