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Masculine desire : the sexual politics of Victorian aestheticism

Beginning with Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' and continuing by way of Hopkins and Swinburne to the novels of Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy, Richard Dellamora draws on journals, letters, censored texts and pornography to examine the cultural construction of masculinity in Victorian literature
Print Book, English, ©1990
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©1990