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Secreted Desires
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The Garden God
Fifteen year old Graham Iddesleigh dreams of a past life, where he frolicked in a garden with a young Greek god. However, his dreams threaten to come to an abrupt end when his father decides to send him away to school. But what is Graham's surprise when he meets a fellow schoolboy, Harold Brocklehurst, who is the very image of the Greek god of his dreams! Graham falls deeply in love with his new friend, and the two boys spend an unforgettable summer together -- until a heartbreaking tragedy occurs, a tragedy that will change Graham's life forever. The Garden God was first published in 1905, in the wake of the Oscar Wilde trial and other scandals, and risked controversy with its undercurrents of pederastic desire. Forrest Reid dedicated the novel to his idol, Henry James, who was outraged and never spoke to Reid again. This first ever scholarly edition of the novel includes a new introduction and notes by Michael Matthew Kaylor, who dismisses the traditional view of Reid as merely a provincial novelist and argues for his inclusion among the major Uranian writers such as Pater, Wilde, and Frederick Rolfe.
The Collected Works & Commissioned Biography of Edward Perry Warren
Dva svazky přinášejí vědecké vydání děl Edwarda Perryho Warrena (z nichž žádné, s výjimkou jediného, dosud nebylo nově publikováno), doplněné o úvodní životopisné údaje, rozsáhlý poznámkový aparát, překlady, ilustrace a přílohy. Poprvé zde může čtenář slyšet Warrenův hlas v jeho plné šíři – v jeho korespondenci a dalších textech, které tvoří jeho biografii nazvanou Edward Perry Warren: The Biography of a Connoisseur, v jeho konverzaci, zachycené v díle An Imaginary Conversation Osberta Burdetta, v jeho románu A Tale of Pausanian Love (který je zde vydán vůbec poprvé), v jeho sbírce The Wild Rose: A Volume of Poems, v jeho pohádce The Prince Who Did Not Exist, v jeho odborném článku The Scandal of the Museo di Villa Giulia, v jeho pamfletu Classical & American Education, v jeho převyprávění tří řeckých legend Alcmaeon, Hypermestra, Caeneus a konečně v jeho vrcholném díle, apologii A Defence of Uranian Love.
The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus
John Stuart Hay (1875-1949), an Oxford graduate and clergyman who later sold antiques in Athens, contributed to the Uranian canon a biography of the Roman Emperor Elagabalus (Heliogabalus), infamous as the ultimate illustration of the potential and dangers of actualized Decadence. Hay's 1911 "psychobiography" The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus "was attacked on all sides - for its subject and content, for historical inaccuracies and a lack of scholarly rigor, for its style and whiff of perversity, as well as for various instances of overt and easily recognizable plagiarism." Nonetheless, "rather than its historical accuracy (which is often questionable) . . . [what] makes this biography worthy ...
Sea-changes: Melville - Forster - Britten
E. M. Forster first encountered Billy Budd in 1926. Some twenty years later, he embarked on a collaboration with Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier, adapting Melville’s novella for the opera stage. The libretto they produced poignantly reaffirmsthe Forsterian creed of salvation through personal relationships.This study presents an extensive exploration of Forster’s involvement in the interpretation, transformation and re-creation of Melville’s text. It situates the story of the Handsome Sailor in the wider context of Forster’s literary oeuvre, his life, and his lifewritings. In detailed readings, Billy Budd becomes a lens through which the themes, patterns and leitmotifs of Forsterian thought and creative imagination are brought into focus. A close re-examination of the libretto sketches serves to shed new light on the collaborative process in which Melville’s story was changed to fit an archetypal array of plot and character types that is central to Forster’s own storytelling.
Engendering Ireland
Engendering Ireland is a collection of ten essays showcasing the importance of gender in a variety of disciplines. These essays interrogate gender as a concept which encompasses both masculinity and femininity, and which permeates history and literature, culture and society in the modern period. The collection includes historical research which situates Irish women workers within an international economic context; textual analysis which sheds light on the effects of modernity on the home and rising female expectations in the post-war era; the rediscovery of significant Irish women modernists such as Mary Devenport O’Neill; and changing representations of masculinity, race, ethnicity and interculturalism in modern Irish theatre. Each of these ten essays provides a thought-provoking picture of the complex and hitherto unrecognised roles gender has played in Ireland over the last century. While each of these chapters offers a fresh perspective on familiar themes in Irish gender studies, they also illustrate the importance and relevance of gender studies to contemporary debates in Irish society.
The Tom Barber Trilogy
Forrest Reid (1875-1947), the Ulster novelist, spent his life in Belfast, in the north of Ireland, save for a period as an undergraduate at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. in 1908. He numbered among his many friends and acquaintances George William Russell (A. E.), E. M. Forster, Edmund Gosse, C. S. Lewis, and Walter de le Mare, as well as various Uranians such as Theo Bartholomew, Osbert Burdett, and Mark André Raffalovich. Despite his sixteen novels, his two autobiographies, and a range of other works, despite being a founding member of the Irish Academy of Letters and an honorary Doctor of Letters of Queen's University in Belfast, despite his novel Young Tom being a...
The Victorian Diary
In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the exposure or publication of their diaries was a real possibility that they either coveted or feared. Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres to show that well-known writers and public figures of both sexes exploited the diary's self-reflexive, diurnal structure in order to enhance their...
Lad's Love
These two volumes constitute the first substantial anthology of paederastic poetry and prose compiled since Men and Boys: An Anthology in 1924. It is a representative sampling of the diverse paederastic texts written by the English Uranians, ranging from William Johnson's Ionica (1858) to Samuel Elsworth Cottam's Cameos of Boyhood (1930). Forty-seven writers of Uranian poetry and prose have been included in the two volumes of this anthology, including, in this second volume: Edmund St. Gascoigne Mackie, Hector Hugh Munro (Saki), A. Newman, John Gambril Francis Nicholson, William Paine, Walter Pater, Mark Andre Raffalovich, Forrest Reid, Frederick William Rolfe (Baron Corvo), Charles Edward Sayle, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Arnold William Smith, Simeon Solomon, Lord Henry Richard Charles Somerset, Stanislaus Eric, Count Stenbock, John Moray Stuart-Young, John Addington Symonds, Edward Perry Warren, Joseph William Gleeson White, Oscar Wilde, Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson, George Edward Woodberry, Cuthbert Wright Despite a variety of approaches to the theme, the writers anthologized here have one thing in common: Boy-love was, for them, a profound passion.
