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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dowling, Linda C., 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Aesthete and effeminatus
  • Victorian manhood and the warrior ideal
  • The Socratic eros
  • The higher sodomy.