3 research outputs found
Christian art and symbolism, : with some hints on the study of landscape. /
Lectures delivered in 1871-2, at Winchester, Bradford, and Halifax.Preface, by J. Ruskin.--Introductory.--Greek and Christian art.-- Italian art-history.--Florentine succession of painters and history of symbolism and the grotesque.--Raphael and Michael Angelo.--DĂŒrer and Holbein.--Landscape sketching.--Poetry of landscape.--Art, craft, and schools.Mode of access: Internet
âWe Cannot Be Greek Nowâ: Age Difference, Corruption and the Making of Sexual Inversion.
types: Articlepublication status: Published© 2013 by Taylor & FrancisA Problem in Greek Ethics, A Problem in Modern Ethics and âSoldier Loveâ indicate
that John Addington Symonds responded carefully to social anxieties regarding the
influence and corruption of youth and placed increasing emphasis on presenting male
same-sex desire as consensual and age-consistent. Situating Symondsâs work in the social
and political context of the 1880s and 1890s, the article opens up a more complex
understanding of Symondsâs reception of Greece. It also offers a new reading of his
collaboration with Havelock Ellis by arguing that Symondsâs insistence on age-equal and
reciprocal relationships between men strongly shaped Sexual Inversion. This shows that
concerns about age difference and ideals of equality and reciprocity began to impact
debates about male same-sex desire in the late nineteenth century â earlier than is
generally assumed.The Wellcome Trus