Hellenism and homosexuality in Victorian Oxford /
In April 1895, Oscar Wilde stood in the prisoner's dock of the Old Bailey, charged with "acts of gross indecency with another male person. These filthy practices, the prosecutor declared, posed a deadly threat to English society, "a sore which cannot fail in time to corrupt and taint...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Aesthete and effeminatus
- Victorian manhood and the warrior ideal
- The Socratic eros
- The higher sodomy.