Joseph Bristow
Biographic Data
| ID | 3682027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Bristow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Bristow |
| SIGNATURE | BRISTOW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Oscar Wilde, Individualism, and the Future of Aestheticism
Oscar Wilde's essay “The Soul of Man under Socialism,” which first appeared in Frank Harris's Fortnightly Review in 1891, has always proved difficult to place on the fin-de-siècle political map. Over the years, scholars have reached contending viewpoints about the degree to which Wilde's discussion either articulates a convincing commitment to socialism or serves as a series of memorable aphorisms that were aimed simply to humor the readership of…
Politics, Aesthetics, Play
In The Radical Aesthetic (2000), Isobel Armstrong provides an incisive critique of Terry Eagleton's condemnation of the “Kantian Imaginary” in The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990). Her objections are twofold. First, Eagleton presents this structure as one in which the subject is immobilized by an all-consuming and pleasurable maternalism that inhibits collective action for radical change. Secondly, Eagleton extends his objections to the Kantian I…
Extraordinary Aesthetes
The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and nove…
Aleister Crowley's Poetic Fin de Siècle
This article explores the extreme type of decadent eroticism that Aleister Crowley developed while an undergraduate at Cambridge in the later 1890s. The discussion focuses of Crowley's desire to appear as the main legatee of Algernon Charles Swinburne's poetry from the 1860s and 1870s. Especially significant here is Crowley's volume White Stains , which the maverick publisher Leonard Smithers issued in a privately circulated edition in 1898. In t…
Aestheticism
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Wilde Discoveries
Wilde Writings
Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions
The blackmailer and the sodomite
On 25 May 1895, Oscar Wilde went to jail after three humiliating trials - the first was Wilde's failed suit against the Marquess of Queensberry who libelled him for 'posing as a sodomite'; and the subsequent two involved the Crown's prosecution of Wilde for committing acts of gross indecency with other men. This article revisits the trials by looking at sources that paint a rather different picture from the influential one that Ed Cohen and Alan …
“A Few Drops of Thick, White, Viscid Sperm”
Infernal Desires of Angela Carter
Sexual Sameness (Routledge Revivals)
Sexual Sameness
Introduction
Is fiction which makes fact alive, fact too? He knew there was a good chance of him dying, and the pots dying with him. In a distinguished career spanning five decades, A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book marks her most sustained return to the world of nineteenth-century culture since the phenomenal success of Possession: A Romance (1990): a finely crafted novel that makes connections between the academic world of the 1980s and two imaginary Victori…
Sexuality
Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. This fully updated second edition includes: a historical account of sexuality from the Victorians to the present discussions of the most influential theorists including Freud, Lacan, Bataille, Baudrillard, Cixous, Deleuze, Irigaray and Kristeva …
JVC Online
We are pleased to announce that on 1 September 2010 our publisher, Taylor and Francis, launched ‘JVC Online’. This interactive website, which has been designed by David Burgoyne, gives readers access to a wealth of information relating to not only the contents of the Journal of Victorian Culture (JVC) but also current developments in Victorian studies, including links to conferences, notices of forthcoming publications, and relevant online resour…
The story of an African farm
Writers, Readers, and Reputations
Reviewed by: Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918 Joseph Bristow (bio) Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918, by Philip Waller; pp. xii + 1181. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, £85.00, $150.00. In his single-page preface to this behemoth of a book, Philip Waller—distinguished editor of English Historical Review—declares that Writers, Readers, and Reputations will …
Sexuality
Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the most influential contemporary theories of sexual desire and reveals how nineteenth century scientists invented 'sexuality'. This clear and fascinating introductory guide makes complex theoretical ideas accessible to readers of all levels. It explores: the lasting influence of late-Victorian sexology conflicting accounts of eroticism the place of Freud and Lacan within cultural studies, literary criticism a…
The Armytage-Tomson-Watson Sequence”
In the summer of 1895 American critic Edmund Clarence Stedman sent a letter across the Atlantic to Robert Bridges about a second decisive change that had just occurred in the career of one of the English poet's most widely published compatriots: “the Armytage-Tomson-Watson sequence is interesting. Well, a woman who can write such ballads has a right to be her own mistress” (Stedman and Gould 2: 185). Stedman's intriguing comment arose from the su…
Remapping the Sites of Modern Gay History
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Vol. 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The 1890 and 1891 Texts
Why ‘Victorian’? A Period and Its Problems
Why do literary historians still employ the term ‘Victorian’ to describe a sprawling period of some sixty or so years? This paper concentrates attention on how modern criticism has largely failed to analyze the introduction of the term ‘Victorian’ into British and American culture during the 1870s. By looking closely at the late nineteenth-century essays of Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Addington Symonds, Edward Dowden, and H. D. Traill, the disc…
Memorialising Wilde
All out of tune in this world's instrument’
Remapping the Sites of Modern Gay History
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Why ‘Victorian’? A Period and Its Problems
Why do literary historians still employ the term ‘Victorian’ to describe a sprawling period of some sixty or so years? This paper concentrates attention on how modern criticism has largely failed to analyze the introduction of the term ‘Victorian’ into British and American culture during the 1870s. By looking closely at the late nineteenth-century essays of Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Addington Symonds, Edward Dowden, and H. D. Traill, the disc…
Transatlantic
Bodies after Foucault
Bodies after Foucault Get access FRANK MORT, Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England Since 1930, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, £7.95. CATHERINE GALLAGHER AND THOMAS LACQUEUR (eds), The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century, Berkeley University of California Press, 1987. JOSEPH BRISTOW JOSEPH BRISTOW Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Works…
Male wants
"Churlsgrace"
In his Retreat Notes of January 1888, Gerard Manley Hopkins subjects baptism of Jesus to a richly imaginative and necessarily Ignatian form of contemplation. Focusing in main on first chapter of John where apostle anticipates imminent appearance of Lord, Hopkins examines John's declaration that he must humble himself before Son of God: He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose (John 1:27…
Sexual Sameness
The Obscenity of Philip Larkin
The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde
The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theatre's most important and enigmatic writers. Although a general overview, the volume also offers some of the latest thinking on the dramatist and his impact on the twentieth century. Part One places Wilde's work within the cultural and historical context of his time and includes an opening essay by Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland. Further chapters also exami…
Effeminate England
This text looks into the legacy of effeminacy in homoerotic literature that began over a century ago with the 1885 Labouchere Amendment criminalizing male homosexual contact, and Oscar Wilde's subsequent incarceration
Sexuality
Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the most influential contemporary theories of sexual desire and reveals how nineteenth-century scientists invented 'sexuality
All out of tune in this world's instrument’
Memorialising Wilde
Why ‘Victorian’? A Period and Its Problems
Why do literary historians still employ the term ‘Victorian’ to describe a sprawling period of some sixty or so years? This paper concentrates attention on how modern criticism has largely failed to analyze the introduction of the term ‘Victorian’ into British and American culture during the 1870s. By looking closely at the late nineteenth-century essays of Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Addington Symonds, Edward Dowden, and H. D. Traill, the disc…
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Vol. 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The 1890 and 1891 Texts
Sexuality
Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the most influential contemporary theories of sexual desire and reveals how nineteenth century scientists invented 'sexuality'. This clear and fascinating introductory guide makes complex theoretical ideas accessible to readers of all levels. It explores: the lasting influence of late-Victorian sexology conflicting accounts of eroticism the place of Freud and Lacan within cultural studies, literary criticism a…
The Armytage-Tomson-Watson Sequence”
In the summer of 1895 American critic Edmund Clarence Stedman sent a letter across the Atlantic to Robert Bridges about a second decisive change that had just occurred in the career of one of the English poet's most widely published compatriots: “the Armytage-Tomson-Watson sequence is interesting. Well, a woman who can write such ballads has a right to be her own mistress” (Stedman and Gould 2: 185). Stedman's intriguing comment arose from the su…
Remapping the Sites of Modern Gay History
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Writers, Readers, and Reputations
Reviewed by: Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918 Joseph Bristow (bio) Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918, by Philip Waller; pp. xii + 1181. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, £85.00, $150.00. In his single-page preface to this behemoth of a book, Philip Waller—distinguished editor of English Historical Review—declares that Writers, Readers, and Reputations will …
The story of an African farm
Sexuality
Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. This fully updated second edition includes: a historical account of sexuality from the Victorians to the present discussions of the most influential theorists including Freud, Lacan, Bataille, Baudrillard, Cixous, Deleuze, Irigaray and Kristeva …
JVC Online
We are pleased to announce that on 1 September 2010 our publisher, Taylor and Francis, launched ‘JVC Online’. This interactive website, which has been designed by David Burgoyne, gives readers access to a wealth of information relating to not only the contents of the Journal of Victorian Culture (JVC) but also current developments in Victorian studies, including links to conferences, notices of forthcoming publications, and relevant online resour…
Introduction
Is fiction which makes fact alive, fact too? He knew there was a good chance of him dying, and the pots dying with him. In a distinguished career spanning five decades, A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book marks her most sustained return to the world of nineteenth-century culture since the phenomenal success of Possession: A Romance (1990): a finely crafted novel that makes connections between the academic world of the 1980s and two imaginary Victori…
“A Few Drops of Thick, White, Viscid Sperm”
Infernal Desires of Angela Carter
Sexual Sameness (Routledge Revivals)
Sexual Sameness
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