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'The Divine Friend, Unknown, Most Desired': The Problematic Uranian Poets

Authors

KAYLOR Michael Matthew

Year of publication 2004
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Theory and Practice in English Studies
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
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.

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