Research Catalog

Title

Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and male desire : begotten, not made / James Campbell, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida, USA.

Author

Campbell, James, 1964-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Details

Description

x, 241 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire explores Wilde's idea of 'male procreation', which is the begetting of new ideas through the erotic but not necessarily physical interactions of male couples. The study offers innovative readings of several of Wilde's texts, including The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome. The author connects Wilde to Wilfred Owen through two figures: Robert Ross, Wilde's first lover and literary executor; and Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, the translator of Proust and the person who most directly placed Owen into Wilde's tradition of male procreation. The book seeks to take Wilde seriously as a theorist of same-sex love while allowing for the differences between Wilde's classically based conceptions and those of the twentieth century. Likewise, it situates Owen as Wilde's symbolic son, as both a product of Wilde's theory and as a proponent of it"--

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

Subjects

• Male homosexuality
• Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• Male homosexuality in literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Man-woman relationships
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 > Criticism and interpretation
• Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918 > Relations with men
• Great Britain
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
• Male homosexuality > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918 > Criticism and interpretation
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 > Relations with men
• 1800 - 1899
• History

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.

Contents

1. Sexual Gnosticism: Male Procreation and 'The Portrait of Mr W. H.' -- 2. Shades of Green and Gray: Dual Meanings in Wilde's Novel -- 3. Love of the Impossible: Wilde's Failed Queer Theory -- 4. Oscar and Sons: The Afterlife of Male Procreation -- 5. Priests of Keats: Wilfred Owen's Pre-War Relationship to Wilde -- 6. OW/WH/WO: Wilfred Owen as Symbolic Son of Oscar Wilde -- Afterword.

Call Number

JFD 15-4679

ISBN

• 9781137550637 (hardback)
• 1137550635 (hardback)

LCCN

2015018354

OCLC

909320889

Author

Campbell, James, 1964- author.

Title

Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and male desire : begotten, not made / James Campbell, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida, USA.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.

Chronological Term

1800 - 1899

Research Call Number

JFD 15-4679