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

"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 hor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Janes, Dominic (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Caricature > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Gay men > Great Britain > Caricatures and cartoons.
Dandies > Great Britain > Caricatures and cartoons.
Gay men in art.
Homosexuality and art > Great Britain.
Homosexuality > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Homosexuality > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
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.