Young Men and the Symmetrical Life

Stoneley, Peter

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June 01 2014

Young Men and the Symmetrical Life

Peter Stoneley

Peter Stoneley is a Professor in the Department of English, and Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Literature and Languages, at the University of Reading, England. His books include Consumerism and American Girls’ Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and A Queer History of the Ballet (Routledge, 2007). The present essay is part of an ongoing interest in the queer arts and letters of New England from 1870 to 1950. He is currently leading a public engagement project, in collaboration with the Berkshire Record Office and sponsored by the UK Government's “Sharing Heritage” scheme, called “Oscar Wilde and Reading Gaol”.

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Peter Stoneley

Peter Stoneley is a Professor in the Department of English, and Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Literature and Languages, at the University of Reading, England. His books include Consumerism and American Girls’ Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and A Queer History of the Ballet (Routledge, 2007). The present essay is part of an ongoing interest in the queer arts and letters of New England from 1870 to 1950. He is currently leading a public engagement project, in collaboration with the Berkshire Record Office and sponsored by the UK Government's “Sharing Heritage” scheme, called “Oscar Wilde and Reading Gaol”.

Online ISSN: 1937-2213

Print ISSN: 0028-4866

2014

The New England Quarterly (2014) 87 (2): 191–227.

https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00367

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Denman Waldo Ross (1853–1935), professor at Harvard, was one of the most influential American art theorists and collectors of the early twentieth century. Drawing on archival texts and images, this essay places Ross's innovative work within its contexts of Platonic theory, racial anthropology, and homosexuality.

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