The Wilde century : effeminacy, Oscar Wilde, and the queer moment

by Alan Sinfield

Paper Book, 1994

Status

Available

Call number

305.389664

Genres

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c1994.

Description

For 15 years in Victorian England, Oscar Wilde was able to carry on like the famous camp queen of our imaginings - effete, leisured, aesthetic, amoral, decadent, dandified. This work explores how Wilde was seen before the trials that ended his career and made him the most famous queer man since Socrates. In particular, it examines the concept of effeminacy and asks how Wilde's effeminacy was perceived.

Subjects

Language

English

Original publication date

1994

Physical description

viii, 216 p.; 23 cm

ISBN

9780231101677

Barcode

10205

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