"An exceptionally clear-headed and far-reaching analysis. . . . Beautifully written and argued with subtlety,
the book is indispensable for students of Victorian literature, culture, gender studies, and the nature of social
change."
--Choice
Cornell University Press Web Site, November, 2000
Summary
Linda Dowling offers the first detailed account of Oxford Hellenism, the Victorian philosophical and literary
movement that envisioned the possibility of homosexuality as a positive social identity.