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Queer Sensibilities
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Abstract
This chapter explores in detail Symonds’s relationship to three famous contemporaries: Henry James, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. First, Symonds’s influence on James is shown to be far more extensive and complex than has been realized. Next, the language of “auras” and “atmospheres” in Symonds and Wilde is examined. Finally, Symonds and Pater are compared and contrasted at length. Throughout, it is argued that the correlation between aestheticism and homosexuality is best understood in terms not of codes and “masks,” but of a shared “sensibility,” predicated on a nuanced understanding of the relationship of mind and body to experience and truth.
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Abstract
This chapter explores in detail Symonds’s relationship to three famous contemporaries: Henry James, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde.
First, Symonds’s influence on James is shown to be far more extensive and complex than has been realized.
Next, the language of “auras” and “atmospheres” in Symonds and Wilde is examined.
Finally, Symonds and Pater are compared and contrasted at length.
Throughout, it is argued that the correlation between aestheticism and homosexuality is best understood in terms not of codes and “masks,” but of a shared “sensibility,” predicated on a nuanced understanding of the relationship of mind and body to experience and truth.
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