Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford"Dowling's compact and intelligently argued study is concerned with the late Victorian emergence of homosexuality as an identity rather than as an activity. [This identity] was formed out of notions of Hellenism current in mid century Oxford that were held to be lofty and ennobling and even a kind of substitute for a waning Christianity."Nineteenth Century Literature "Dowling's study is an exceptionally clear headed and far reaching analysis of the