the respectable "versus" the bohemian, the cynical "versus" the sentimental, the provincial "versus" the cosmopolitan,

The supposed oppositions that characteristically structure writing—
the respectable "versus" the bohemian,
the cynical "versus" the sentimental, 
the provincial "versus" the cosmopolitan, 
the anesthetized "versus" the sexual — 
these pseudo-opposition that had come by the middle of the nineteenth century to be cripplingly knotted into the guts of British men and, through them, into the lives of women.