— Table of Contents —
List of Abbreviations                                                                                xxxi
Introduction
'During My Long Studies I Have Come to Admire': Penetrating Intimate Victorian Passages
Chapter One                                                                                                25
That World in Which Others Had Moved with So Much Embarrassment': Victorianists and the Taxonomies of Desire
Chapter Two                                                                                               101
'Problems So Beautifully Ingenious': Hopkins and Uranian Problematics
Chapter Three                                                                                            161
'Beautiful Dripping Fragments':
A Whitmanesque Reading of Hopkins's 'Epithalamion'
Chapter Four                                                                                              207
'A Sort of Chivalrous Conscience':
Pater's Marius the Epicurean and Paederastic Pedagogy
Chapter Five                                                                                               297
'Paedobaptistry':
Wilde as Priapic Educationalist
Conclusion                                                                                                  373
'The Daring of Poets Later Born': The Uranian Continuum, 1858-2005
Appendices, Bibliography,
Use of Images, About the Author
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