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]
Subjects:
Großbritannien
Karikatur
Homosexualität
Dandy
Geschichte 1750-1900
Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Oscar Wilde Prefigured
Author Notes:Dominic Janes
Table of 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.

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