SOURCE: Frazier, Adrian. “Queering the Irish Renaissance: The Masculinities of Moore, Martyn, and Yeats.” In Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland, edited by Anthony Bradley and Maryann Gialanella Valiulis, pp. 8-38. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

In the following essay, Frazier discusses Martyn's relationship with George Moore in an examination of the connections between aestheticism, homosexuality, and the Irish Literary Revival.

Something interesting has been happening in recent years in Victorian studies that has not until lately made much of a dent in studies of the Irish Literary Revival. Scholars engaged in women's studies, accustomed to defining emergent forms of modern female identity against a patriarchal norm, began to question the unity of that norm, and moved from the construction of female identities to the study of the forms and transformations of Victorian male identities. At the same time, scholars engaged in gay or queer studies, often...