声明
Abstract
摘要
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One Homosexual Aestheticism in Theory
1．1 Homophobia
1．2 Sedgwick’s Theory of Closeted Homosexuality
1．3 Victorian Homosexual Aestheticism
1．3．1 Aesthetic Movement：Art for Art’s Sake
1．3．2 Charles Baudelaire：Decadence
1．3．3 Oscar Wilde：Dandyism
1．4 Jamesian Aestheticism
1．4．1 Henry James and Homosexual Aestheticism
1．4．2 Jamesian Aesthetic Irony in The Line of Beauty
Chapter Two Twentieth Century Homosexual Aestheticism in English Literature
2．1 Homosexuality in Twentieth Century English Literature
2．1．1 Changing Attitudes Towards Homosexuality in Literature
2．1．2 Writers of the Late Twentieth Century
2．2 Alan Hollinghurst - Within and beyond Homosexual
Chapter Three Irony in Nick’s Pursuit of Jamesian Aestheticism
3．1 Nick as an Ironic Aesthete
3．1．1 Emptiness
3．1．2 Ironic Detachment
3．2 Nick as a Homosexual Aesthete
3．2．1 Citationality
3．2．2 Inoperative Irony and Snobbery
3．3 Irony in Appreciation of Music
Chapter Four Exposures of the Closeted Homosexuals
4．1 Publicity and Privacy
4．2 Nick as a Guest to the Feddens
4．3 Nick’s Concealments
4．3．1 Concealment in Thatcherite Britain
4．3．2 Concealment Behind Jamesian Style
4．4 Nick’s Decadent Gay Role of Aesthete
Conclusion
References
Acknowledgements
