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Oscar Wilde prefigured : queer fashioning and British caricature, 1750-1900
- Title
- Oscar Wilde prefigured : queer fashioning and British caricature, 1750-1900 / Dominic Janes.
- Author
- Janes, Dominic
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 279 pages; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Caricature > Social aspects > Great Britain
- Gay men in art
- Dandies > Great Britain > Caricatures and cartoons
- Homosexuality > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Homosexuality > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Homosexuality and art > Great Britain
- Gay men > Great Britain > Caricatures and cartoons
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-268) 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 -- The earlier nineteenth century: conclusions -- "An unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde Sort" Aesthetes -- New men -- The later nineteenth century: conclusions.
- Call Number
- JQE 17-229
- ISBN
- 9780226358642 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 022635864X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2016007547
- OCLC
- 940342255
- Author
- Janes, Dominic, author.
- Title
- Oscar Wilde prefigured : queer fashioning and British caricature, 1750-1900 / Dominic Janes.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-268) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 17-229