'The Divine Friend, Unknown, Most Desired': The Problematic Uranian Poets
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| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Theory and Practice in English Studies |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Frederick Rolfe; Uranians; pederasty |
| Description | Particularly in regard to Frederick Rolfe, this paper considers the ways that the voyeuristic posturing of the Uranians constitutes a unique temperament in English letters. Secondly, it considers the ways that the illegality of their desires resulted in a form of self-fashioning no less marked than that of their Elizabethan predecessors, though taking a different stance, a stance gilded by an astonishing degree of secrecy, a secrecy that makes the Uranians a scholarly challenge to engage. |