John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) and homosexuality: a critical edition of sources

In John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) and Homosexuality: A Critical Edition of.Sources, Sean Brady brings together for the first time the correspondence between.John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis on the project of Sexual Inversion. Ellis'.Sexual Inversion became eventually his totemic Studies in the Psychology of Sex. But in.many respects, the project Sexual Inversion was Symonds' brainchild. Ellis and.Symonds never actually met, so the correspondence represents their complete.communication on the subject. Many of the letters in this critical source edition are.published here for the first time, and the correspondence in its entirely has never been.published together. This critical source edition also publishes Symonds' original.privately printed essays, 'A Problem in Greek Ethics', and 'A Problem in Modern Ethics'.Sean Brady's critical introduction provides a new and interdisciplinary analysis of the.significance of these texts, the correspondence, and of Symonds' place in the history.of ideas and of gender and sexuality. This volume is an indispensable reference fora.wide range of scholars working across multidisciplinary fields of inquiry that focus on.British and continental histories of medicine and sexuality, gender history and studies.of nineteenth-century culture, and introduces the new reader to Symonds' life and.ideas on homosexuality INDICE: Acknowledgements.Introduction: Sean Brady.'A Problem in Greek Ethics': Privately Printed 1883: John Addington Symonds.'A Problem in Modern Ethics. Being an Enquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion. Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists.' Privately Printed 1891: John Addington Symonds.Untitled Essay, transcribed by Mrs. Havelock Ellis, no Title; Undated. Draft of Anonymous Letter from J. A. Symonds to Richard von Krafft-Ebing.The Correspondence of John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis on the Projectof Sexual Inversion.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-51739-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 31/05/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido