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Can I read Victorian Keats : manliness, sexuality, and desire on EtoBox?

Victorian Keats : manliness, sexuality, and desire by James Najarian is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

What is Victorian Keats : manliness, sexuality, and desire about?

This book explores the sexual implications of reading Keats. Keats was lambasted by critics throughout the nineteenth century for his sensuousness and his 'effeminacy'. The Victorians simultaneously identified with, imitated, and distrusted the 'unmanly' poet. Writers, among them Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, and Wilfred Owen came to terms with Keats's work by creating out of the 'effeminate' poet a sexual and literary ally.

Who reads Victorian Keats : manliness, sexuality, and desire?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
James Najarian
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780333985830
Category
literary studies
Subjects
Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History
Updated
2026-03-25

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