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I examine the way in which, in his work of the 1840s, Ruskin uses methods and assumptions derived from eighteenth-century Materialist, Mechanist and Vitalist Natural Philosophy, especially his assertion that the meanings which he reads into natural phenomena are objectively pres…

Literary modernism’s “queer” textual forms and erotic meanings were inextricable from the construction of “normal” sexuality as a statistical, racial, and gendered category in the early-twentieth century. However, scholarship on modernist sexualities has tended not to historiciz…