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McDermott, Ryan Patrick.

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The gay hermeneutic: Victorian genealogies of homosexuality and the practice of reading.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The gay hermeneutic: Victorian genealogies of homosexuality and the practice of reading./
Author:	McDermott, Ryan Patrick.
Description:	178 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: A, page: 1286.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-04A.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3353478
ISBN:	9781109100587

The gay hermeneutic: Victorian genealogies of homosexuality and the practice of reading.
McDermott, Ryan Patrick.

The gay hermeneutic: Victorian genealogies of homosexuality and the practice of reading. - 178 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: A, page: 1286.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2008.

The Gay Hermeneutic examines the scene of gay reading in Victorian literature as one that both represents and contributes to the production of an imagined gay sociability during the latter half of the nineteenth century. While previous scholarship on Victorian homosexuality has documented the historical contexts in which gay reading took the form of an actual social practice, little attention has been paid to the trope of gay reading itself---i.e., to the scene of gay reading---as it is figured within Victorian gay writing. As both a literary trope and a social practice organized around the dissemination of homosexual feelings, gay reading throws into relief certain affective and psychic states that have received only scant attention in recent critical work---namely, the formal strategies of recognition, identification, and world-making that gay writers employed in theorizing social models of homosexuality. Collectively, the readings of John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde that make up The Gay Hermeneutic trace a genealogy of gay reading that grounds its manifestation as a social practice in the formal and rhetorical dynamics of is tropological "presence" in writing. Beginning with the revival of Hellenism at Oxford during the late 1860s, this genealogy maps out the role that gay reading played in the literary counterpublics to which these writers belonged by following the intellectual pathways by which homosocial intellectual interchange interacted with liberal theories of personal mobility and self-determination. In addition, it situates the problem of hermeneutics within a larger domain of cultural formation by differentiating the ways in which gay reading practices meshed with, and at times radically departed from, the Arnoldian narratives of self-reformation that underwrote their claims to legitimacy.

ISBN: 9781109100587

LCCN: AAI3353478Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

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