Reimagining masculinity in Victorian criticism : Swinburne and Pater

Author

Morgan, Thaïs E.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Victorian studies. 1993, Num. 3, Vol. 36, 315-332

ISSN

0042-5222

Abstract (en)

Author states: "The interaction between Swinburne and Pater as leading Aesthetic critics during the 1860s merits further consideration. Equally important, I would suggest, is understanding how and why these two writers staked out and occupied distinctive terrains for their work in the context of the all-male sexual politics of Victorian Aestheticism. For, as allies, both Swinburne and Pater celebrated androgynous beauty and evoked homoeroticism in an attempt to reimagine masculinity at the margins of conventional middle-class notions of manliness. But, simultaneously, as rivals, Swinburne and Pater reimagined masculinity from different positions, with significantly different results".

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- United Kingdom
• Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909
• Criticism
• Comparison
• Pater, Walter Horatio, 1839-1894
• Literary criticism
• Great Britain
• 1800-1900
• Art critics
• Aesthetics
• Gender (sex)
• Aesthetic movement
• Androgyny
• Homosexuality

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Royaume-Uni
• Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909
• Critique
• Comparaison
• Pater, Walter Horatio, 1839-1894
• Critique littéraire
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1800-1900
• Critiques d'art
• Esthétique
• Sexe (catégorie)
• Aesthetic movement
• Androgynie
• Homosexualité

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00347658

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