Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900

by Dominic Janes

"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 horror greeted with such amusement? In Oscar Wilde Prefigured, Dominic Janes suggests that what divided the two sides in this case was not so much the question...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022635864X
• ISBN13: 9780226358642
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"