Talk on the Wilde Side focuses on the formation of a new `type' of sexual category in the newpaper reports of the trials of Oscar Wilde, relating this to middle-class discussions of masculinity throughout the nineteenth century
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Talk on the Wilde Side focuses on the formation of a new `type' of sexual category in the newpaper reports of the trials of Oscar Wilde, relating this to middle-class discussions of masculinity throughout the nineteenth century
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Trials; or, Why I Digress; Part I: Against the Norm; 1 Embodying the Englishman: A Theoretical Fiction; 2 Taking Sex in Hand: Inscribing Masturbation and the Construction of Normative Masculinity; 3 Marking Social Dis-Ease: Normalizing Male "Continence" and the (Re)Criminalization of Male Sexuality; Part II: Pressing Issues; 4 Legislating the Norm: From "Sodomy" to "Gross Indecency"
5 Typing Wilde: Construing the "Desire to Appear to Be a Person Inclined to the Commission of the Gravest of All Offenses"6 Dis-Posing the Body: "Gross Indecency" and the Remapping of Male Sexuality; Epilogue: What's in a Name?; Notes; Index;