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  1. Talk on the Wilde Side
    Author: Cohen, Ed
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Taylor and Francis, Hoboken

    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 more

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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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780415902304
    Scope: Online-Ressource (267 p)
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    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;