John Addington Symonds : culture and the demon desire / edited by John Pemble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pemble, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893--Criticism and interpretation.

Symonds, John Addington.

Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893.

Homosexuality and literature--England--History--19th century.

Homosexuality and literature.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

Physical Description:

xviii, 190 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

The essays in this volume explore the content and context of the life and work of John Addington Symonds (1849-93), who ranks with Ruskin and Pater as a leading exponent of the Renaissance and a major arbiter of British and American taste. Symonds was also a pioneer in the field of sexual psychology, and his writings on sexual inversion are cardinal texts in the history of homosexual liberation.

Contents:

1 Art, Disease, and Mountains / John Pemble 1

2 Truth and its Consequences: The Friendship of Symonds and Henry Sidgwick / Bart Schultz 22

3 A Problem in Gay Heroics: Symonds and l'Amour de l'impossible / Jonathan Kemp 46

4 Symonds and Visual Impressionability / Whitney Davis 62

5 Symonds and the Model of Ancient Greece / Peter J. Holliday 81

6 Pungent Prophecies of Art: Symonds, Pater, and Michelangelo / Alex Potts 102

7 Into Forbidden Territory: Symonds and Tiepolo / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi 122

8 Versions of Antinous: Symonds between Shelley and Yourcenar / Stephen Bann 136

9 'A Certain Disarray of Faculties': Surpassing the Modernist Reception of Symonds / Howard J. Booth 154

10 Bringing Symonds out of the Closet: Some Recollections and Reflections / Phyllis Grosskurth 170

Appendix Symonds's Peccant Poetry / Ian Venables 178.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312228368

OCLC:

42002819