John Addington Symonds : Culture and the Demon Desire

by Pemble, John

• ISBN13: 9780312228361
• ISBN10: 0312228368
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-07-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The essays in this volume explore the content and context of the life and work of John Addington Symonds (1849-93), who ranks with Ruskin and Pater as a leading exponent of the Renaissance and a major arbiter of British and American taste. Symonds was also a pioneer in the field of sexual psychology, and his writings on sexual inversion are cardinal texts in the history of homosexual liberation.

Author Biography

John Pemble is Reader in History at the University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	vii
Editor's Preface	ix
Notes on Contributors	xiv
Chronology	xvi
Art, Disease, and Mountains	1	(21)
John Pemble
Truth and its Consequences: The Friendship of Symonds and Henry Sidgwick	22	(24)
Bart Schultz
A Problem in Gay Heroics: Symonds and l'Amour de l'impossible	46	(16)
Jonathan Kemp
Symonds and Visual Impressionability	62	(19)
Whitney Davis
Symonds and the Model of Ancient Greece	81	(21)
Peter J. Holliday
Pungent Prophecies of Art: Symonds, Pater, and Michelangelo	102	(20)
Alex Potts
Into Forbidden Territory: Symonds and Tiepolo	122	(14)
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
Versions of Antinous: Symonds between Shelley and Yourcenar	136	(18)
Stephen Bann
`A Certain Disarray of Faculties' Surpassing the Modernist Reception of Symonds	154	(16)
Howard J. Booth
Bringing Symonds out of the Closet: Some Recollections and Reflections	170	(16)
Phyllis Grosskurth
Appendix: Symonds's Peccant Poetry	178	(8)
Ian Venables
Index	186