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Oscar Wilde prefigured : queer fashioning and British caricature, 1750-1900

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-establis...

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Main Author: Janes, Dominic (Author, VerfasserIn)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press , [2016]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Oscar Wilde Prefigured
Author Notes:Dominic Janes
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Summary: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. Wilde, it turns out, is not the starting point for public queer figuration. He is the pivot by which Georgian figures and twentieth-century camp stereotypes meet. Drawing on the mutually reinforcing phenomena of dandyism and caricature of alleged effeminates, Janes examines a wide range of images drawn from theater, fashion, and the popular press to reveal new dimensions of identity politics, gender performance, and queer culture.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xiv, 279 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780226358642