SOURCE: "Dorianism," in Apocalyptic Overtures: Sexual Politics and the Sense of an Ending, Rutgers University Press, 1994, pp. 43-64.
Dellamora, who also wrote Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism, offers a more condensed version of his studies in the essay that follows. Looking at several of the major figures of the era—including Wilde, Walter Pater, and J. A. Symonds—Dellamora considers the shifting notions of masculinity and male-male desire that traversed the century, focusing specifically on efforts to maintain the Greek ideal.
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