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Dr Fraser Riddell's Outputs (18)

“Glued together, gushing”: Sticking with John Addington Symonds (2024)
Journal Article
Riddell, F. (2024). “Glued together, gushing”: Sticking with John Addington Symonds. Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures, 2(1), 134-144. https://doi.org/10.1353/cusp.2024.a920149

This review article considers recent work on the queer Victorian writer John Addington Symonds, a central figure in the history of homosexuality. It examines monographs by Shane Butler and Simon Joyce and a novel by Tom Crewe. It focusses, in particu... Read More about “Glued together, gushing”: Sticking with John Addington Symonds.

Disembodied Vocal Innocence: John Addington Symonds, the Victorian Chorister, and Queer Musical Consumption (2020)
Journal Article
Riddell, F. (2020). Disembodied Vocal Innocence: John Addington Symonds, the Victorian Chorister, and Queer Musical Consumption. Victorian Literature and Culture, 48(3), 485-517. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150319000020

In the early 1890s, both John Addington Symonds and Arthur Symons were fascinated by Paul Verlaine's sonnet “Parsifal” (1886)—in particular, by its final line, which dwells on the voices of singing children. Symonds enthused to Symons that it was “a... Read More about Disembodied Vocal Innocence: John Addington Symonds, the Victorian Chorister, and Queer Musical Consumption.

Queer Music in the Queen's Hall: Teleny and Decadent Musical Geographies at the Fin de Siecle (2020)
Journal Article
Riddell, F. (2020). Queer Music in the Queen's Hall: Teleny and Decadent Musical Geographies at the Fin de Siecle. Journal of Victorian Culture, 25(4), 593-608. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcaa016

This article examines the significance of music and musical performance in Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal (1893), an anonymous pornographic novel attributed by some scholars to Oscar Wilde. It draws upon historical material on late-Victorian con... Read More about Queer Music in the Queen's Hall: Teleny and Decadent Musical Geographies at the Fin de Siecle.