John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) and Homosexuality

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.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Sean Brady 'A Problem in Greek Ethics': Privately Printed 1883: John Addington Symonds 'A Problem in Modern Ethics. Being an Enquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion. Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists.' Privately Printed 1891: John Addington Symonds Untitled Essay, transcribed by Mrs. Havelock Ellis, no Title; Undated. Draft of Anonymous Letter from J. A. Symonds to Richard von Krafft-Ebing The Correspondence of John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis on the Project of Sexual Inversion