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1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- "Dammee Sammy you'r a sweet pretty Creature" Macaronis -- Men of feeling -- The later eighteenth century: conclusions -- "Corps de beaux" Regency dandies -- Byronists -- Earlier nineteenth century: conclusions -- "An unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde Sort" Aesthetes -- New men -- Later nineteenth century: conclusions. |
| Summary |
I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad," Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom which erupted in laughter accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a sodomite, and why was Queensbury's horror greeted with such amusement? In Oscar Wilde Prefigured, Dominic Janes suggests that what divided the two sides in this case was not so much the question of whether Wilde was or was not a sodomite, but whether or not it mattered that people could appear to be sodomites. For many, intimations of sodomy were simply a part of the amusing spectacle of sophisticated life. Oscar Wilde Prefigured is a study of the prehistory of this "queer moment" in 1895. Janes explores the complex ways in which men who desired sex with men in Britain had expressed such interests through clothing, style, and deportment since the mid-eighteenth century. He supplements the well-established narrative of the inscription of sodomitical acts into a homosexual label and identity at the end of the nineteenth century by teasing out the means by which same-sex desires could be signaled through visual display in Georgian and Victorian Britain |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Caricature -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Caricature. |
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Social aspects. |
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Great Britain. |
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Gay men -- Great Britain -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Gay men. |
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Caricatures and cartoons.
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Dandies -- Great Britain -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Dandies. |
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Gay men in art.
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Gay men in art. |
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Homosexuality and art -- Great Britain.
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Homosexuality -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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19th century |
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Homosexuality -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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18th century |
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Gender identity.
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Gender identity. |
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Men.
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Men. |
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Homosexuality and art. |
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sex role. |
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Homosexuality. |
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men (male humans) |
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History. |
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing. |
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1700-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Gay men. |
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Dandies. |
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Homosexuality. |
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Gender identity. |
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Men. |
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Cartoons (Humor)
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Cartoons (Humor)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Janes, Dominic. Oscar Wilde prefigured. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016 9780226358642 (DLC) 2016007547 (OCoLC)940342255 |
| ISBN |
9780226396552 (electronic book) |
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022639655X (electronic book) |
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9780226358642 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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022635864X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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