butler shane - the passions of john addington symonds

The Passions of John Addington Symonds

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NOTE EDITORE
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 Today, however, he is usually remembered for his long unpublished Memoirs, a major early monument of queer life-writing, and for two privately printed, secretly circulated essays, one of which includes the earliest printed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.

SOMMARIO
1 - That One Word: Byronic Anticipations of Symonds2 - Dante's Mask: Photography, Tuberculosis, and Hell3 - Homer's Deep: Ancient Greece and Reciprocal Love4 - Symonds's Renaissance: Sensuous Surfaces and Hegelian Limits5 - Animi Figura: Symonds, Stevenson, and the Divided Self6 - Queer Origins: Myths of Childhood, Before Freud7 - Sex Scenes: Symonds in London8 - Queer Sensibilities: Symonds, James, Pater, and Wilde9 - Electric Blue: Symonds on Venice

AUTORE
Shane Butler is the Hall Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, having previously taught at Penn, UCLA, and the University of Bristol. With primary interests in aesthetics and queer theory, he has published widely on classical literature and its reception, Renaissance humanism, the history of sensation, the phenomenology of reading, and the history of sexuality.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI
  • Condizione: Nuovo
  • ISBN: 9780192866936
  • Dimensioni: 240 x 29.0 x 163 mm Ø 790 gr
  • Formato: Copertina rigida
  • Illustration Notes: Frontispiece and 9 illustrations
  • Pagine Arabe: 416