John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) and Homosexuality: A Critical Edition of Sources

The book brings together for the first time John Addington Symonds' key writings on homosexuality, and the entire correspondence between Symonds and Havelock Ellis on the project of Sexual Inversion. The source edition contains a critical introduction to the sources.


About the Author
SEAN BRADY Lecturer in Modern British and Irish History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His research interest focuses on gender, sexuality, politics and religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain and Ireland. His publications include Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861 - 1913 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 & 2009), and What is Masculinity? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World, co-edited with John H. Arnold (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). He is convening editor for Palgrave Macmillan's series, Genders and Sexualities in History.