The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds

The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds
Author: Amber K. Regis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2017-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137291249

This edition is the first to reproduce John Addington Symonds's Memoirs in its entirety. It offers a panoramic view of middle-class Victorian life, shedding light upon sexual cultures and life histories too often hidden from history. Symonds (1840-93) began writing his Memoirs in 1889. It was, he confessed, 'a foolish thing to do.' Symonds was a respected man of letters, an historian, translator, essayist and poet; he was also married with children. But rather than unfold a simple tale of public and private achievement, the Memoirs record his struggle to reconcile his homosexuality with these professional and familial identities. His autobiography offers a confessional account of relationships beyond the accepted bounds of nineteenth-century social mores, presenting an alternative case study that contests the legal and medical authorities that would label his desires a crime or disease. Yet being so eloquent on matters of heterodox sexuality, the Memoirs were suppressed. The manuscript survives because Symonds recognised its import, however 'foolish': he instructed his literary executor to preserve the text, a duty ultimately discharged by placing the manuscript under embargo in the care of the London Library.

The Passions of John Addington Symonds

The Passions of John Addington Symonds
Author: Shane Butler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2022-11-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019269250X

John Addington Symonds (Bristol 1840 - Rome 1893) was one of Victorian Britain's most prolific authors, with works that included poems, translations, travel essays, and scholarly studies on topics ranging from classical literature to the Renaissance to the poetry of his contemporaries. Today, however, he is usually remembered for his long unpublished Memoirs, a major early monument of queer life-writing, and for two privately printed, secretly circulated essays, one of which includes the earliest printed appearance in English of the word homosexual. This new word, first coined in German, has long provided a useful milestone for historians of sexuality charting the emergence not only of new typologies but of whole new regimes of knowledge. But what of the rest of Symonds's vast body of work? This book returns to Symonds, not as the origin of a now familiar history, but as a far more complex thinker, with an ambitious vision of the queerness of the world itself--and of what it means to live in it.

Male Love

Male Love
Author: John Addington Symonds
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1983
Genre: Greece
ISBN:

Greek Epigram in Reception

Greek Epigram in Reception
Author: Gideon Nisbet
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2013-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199662495

Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the interpretations of Ancient Greece in British print culture.

A Problem in Greek Ethics

A Problem in Greek Ethics
Author: John Addington Symonds
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2020-08-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752425407

Reproduction of the original: A Problem in Greek Ethics by John Addington Symonds