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Author: Shane Butler (Hall Professor in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.790kg
ISBN: 9780192866936
ISBN 10: 0192866931
Pages: 410
Publication Date: 24 November 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
At once scholarly and poetic, novelistically gripping and lyrical, Shane Butler's breathtaking investigation of Victorian intellectual John Addington Symonds reveals the complex interminglings between Symonds's personal experience and his writings and establishes him as a queer theorist before queer theory, an indispensable figure for understanding the making and unmaking of modern sexualities. A meta- or anti-biography, a magnificent tribute to the practice of close reading, a work of unconventional cultural history, and a timely theoretical intervention, this book powerfully and innovatively contributes to the debate on Victorian and post-Victorian sexualities. More profoundly, it invites us to rethink the very practice of scholarly writing and literary criticism. Unclassifiably original, blistering, visionary, Shane Butler is one of the most fearless and inspiring literary and critical theorists of our time. * Mario Telo, Professor of Rhetoric, Classics, and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley *
Monumental. * Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker * At once scholarly and poetic, novelistically gripping and lyrical, Shane Butler's breathtaking investigation of Victorian intellectual John Addington Symonds reveals the complex interminglings between Symonds's personal experience and his writings and establishes him as a queer theorist before queer theory, an indispensable figure for understanding the making and unmaking of modern sexualities. A meta- or anti-biography, a magnificent tribute to the practice of close reading, a work of unconventional cultural history, and a timely theoretical intervention, this book powerfully and innovatively contributes to the debate on Victorian and post-Victorian sexualities...Unclassifiably original, blistering, visionary, Shane Butler is one of the most fearless and inspiring literary and critical theorists of our time. * Mario Telo, Professor of Rhetoric, Classics, and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley *
Author Information
Shane Butler is the Hall Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, having previously taught at Penn, UCLA, and the University of Bristol. With primary interests in aesthetics and queer theory, he has published widely on classical literature and its reception, Renaissance humanism, the history of sensation, the phenomenology of reading, and the history of sexuality.
