Plato, Wilde, and Woolf: the poetics of homoerotic "intercourse" in A Room of One's Own.
This article places Woolf in the context of homoerotic literary ancestry. It suggests that the overall argument in A Room of One's Own owes a debt to Wilde's 1891 pamphlet The Soul of Man under Socialism. It also examines Woolf's controversial meditation on male-female collaboration and intercourse in A Room, and suggests a homoerotic reading of this meditation, drawing on images and ideas of literary transmission and creation from Plato's Symposium.
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University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA. ruth.vanita@umontana.edu
D003075:Coitus; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D008093:Literature, Modern / Q000266:history*; D008297:Male; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history*