All Outputs (9)

‘Male homoerotic relations in history’ (2024)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (in press). ‘Male homoerotic relations in history’. In M. E. Wiesner-Hanks, & M. Kuefler (Eds.), The Cambridge World History of Sexualities (252 - 272). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108895996.013

This chapter explores male homoerotic desire, whether idealised, romanticised, visualised or physically enacted. Male homoerotic practices and relations have sometimes been structured around notions of difference between two males who were thought to... Read More about ‘Male homoerotic relations in history’.

‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’ (2022)
Book Chapter
Janes. (2022). ‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’. In Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces Across the UK. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350143753.ch-4

Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history. The chapters cover a broad range of themes f... Read More about ‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’.

The Oxford Movement, Asceticism, and Sexual Desire (2020)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (2020). The Oxford Movement, Asceticism, and Sexual Desire. In The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism (353-369). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669509.013.22

Entering the Eighteenth-Century Closet and Coming Out Today (2020)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (2020). Entering the Eighteenth-Century Closet and Coming Out Today. In M. Cook, & A. Gorman-Murray (Eds.), Queering the Interior. (1). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086475-22

Regarding Pratt and Smith, the last couple of sodomites to be hanged in Britain’ (2019)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. Regarding Pratt and Smith, the last couple of sodomites to be hanged in Britain’. In From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: International Perspectives since 1789 (43–57). (1). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350023932.ch-004

The law in Georgian England was not always effective in preventing forms of public awareness of same-sex relationships that included elements of sympathy on the part of observers. I will argue that the move during the nineteenth century away from han... Read More about Regarding Pratt and Smith, the last couple of sodomites to be hanged in Britain’.

‘W. H. Spurgeon’s reading of material religion and the “battle of the styles” in Victorian church architecture (2019)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (2019). ‘W. H. Spurgeon’s reading of material religion and the “battle of the styles” in Victorian church architecture. In Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion. Ohio State University Press

‘Eminently queer Victorians and the Bloomsbury Group’s critique of British leadership’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (2018). ‘Eminently queer Victorians and the Bloomsbury Group’s critique of British leadership’. In The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe (359-378). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58538-7_17

Early Victorian moral anxiety and the queer legacy of the eighteenth-century gothic revival (2015)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (2015). Early Victorian moral anxiety and the queer legacy of the eighteenth-century gothic revival. In Material religion in modern Britain : the spirit of things

John Foxe and British attitudes to martyrdom after the French Revolution (2014)
Book Chapter
Janes, D. (2014). John Foxe and British attitudes to martyrdom after the French Revolution. In Martyrdom and terrorism: pre-modern to contemporary perspectives (179-196)