Theocritus' Idyll 11

Spellbinding Performance: Poet as Witch in Theocritus' Second Idyll and Apollonius' Argonautica

From diyls to ylides to my idyll.

Chemical research and mountaineering have much in common. If the goal or the summit is to be reached, both initiative and determination as well as perseverance are required. But after the hard work it is a great joy to be at the goal or the peak with its splendid panorama. However, especially in chemical research as far as new territory is concerned the results may sometimes be quite different:...

Dr. Phillips: a Maida Vale idyll (1887)

FRANK DANBY, Dr Phillips: a Maida Vale idyll (1887), with an introduction by Stephen Lock, London, Keynes Press, British Medical Association, 1989, 8vo, pp. xii, 285, illus., £45.00, abroad £49.00, incl. (air) postage from BMJ (Keynes Press), PO Box 295, London WC1H 9TE. Few Victorian novels come as directly to the point as Frank Danby's story about Dr Benjamin Phillips, a Jewish doctor with a ...

Imagining Cities, Living the Other: Between the Gay Urban Idyll and Rural Lesbian Lives

By focusing on often neglected lesbian geographies, this paper deconstructs the urban/rural divide which has pervaded discussions of (sexual) geographies. In particular, the paper addresses the intersections between imaginings of urban idylls (what could be termed the urban gay) and how these places ‘beyond’ can, in part, (in)form everyday lives in small towns (what could be termed the lesbian ...

Chilling out in the country? Interrogating Daylesford as a 'gay/lesbian rural idyll'

Recent scholarship suggests that the gay/lesbian idyllisation of rural places is an urban construct, constituted through metropolitan sensibilities, communities and imaginaries. We extend this work through examining the construction of Daylesford, Victoria, as a ‘gay/lesbian rural idyll’. Daylesford annually hosts ChillOut, Australia’s largest rural gay/lesbian festival, which underpins its idy...