Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE. Re-gendering Aestheticism
6. ONE "Still Burning from This Strangling Embrace": Vernon Lee on Desire and Aesthetics 21
7. TWO. Greek Maenads, Victorian Spinsters 43
8. THREE. The Adolescent Boy: Fin-de-Siecle Femme Fatale? 83
9. PART TWO. Revisionary Decadence
10. FOUR. Victorian Effeminacies 109
11. FIVE. Production, Reproduction, and Pleasure in Victorian Aesthetics and Economics 127
12. SIX. "Men of My Own Sex": Genius, Sexuality, and George Du Maurier's Artists 147
13. SEVEN. "Desire Without Limit": Dissident Confession in Oscar Wilde's De Profundis 171
14. PART THREE. Dissident Aesthetics
15. EIGHT. The Elusive Qyeerness of Henry James's "Qyeer Comrade": Reading Gabriel Nash of The Tragic Muse 191
16. NINE. George Santayana and the Beauty of Friendship 211
17. TEN. Ten Percent: Poetry and Pathology 235
18. ELEVEN. The Romance of Boys Bathing: Poetic Precedents and Respondents to the Paintings of Henry Scott Tuke 253
19. TWELVE. The Dance of Life: Choreographing Sexual Dissidence in the Early Twentieth Century 279
20. Contributors 307
21. Index 311