TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedman,Dustin
TI  - Before queer theory: Victorian aestheticism and the self 
SN  - 9781421431499
AV  - PR468 .B446 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Aestheticism (Literature)
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Self (psychology) in literature
KW  - Homosexuality and literature
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Homoerotic subjectivity in Walter Pater's early essays --; Styles of survival in Pater's later writings --; Oscar Wilde's lyric performativity --; Vernon Lee and the specter of lesbian history --; Queering the object: aesthetic indifference in Michael Field's poetry; 2; b
N2  - "This book of literary criticism, about the historical relationship of art, sexuality, and the self, demonstrates that Victorian aestheticism was a key forerunner to modern queer theory. By theorizing aestheticism through Hegel's philosophy, the author argues that Victorian aesthetes imagined that encountering art and literature could help to shape a person's queer sense of self"--
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