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The book brings together for the first time John Addington Symonds´ key writings on homosexuality, and the entire correspondence between Symonds and Havelock Ellis on the project of Sexual Inversion. The source edition contains a critical introduction to the sources.

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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

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´Sean Brady´s critical edition provides an important and valuable reference for scholars working on gender and sexuality studies, as well as those more broadly interested in nineteenth-century literature, and cultural and medical history.´

- Jade Munslow Ong, English Studies

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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.

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