Alan Sinfield
For 15 years in Victorian England, Oscar Wilde was able to carry on like the famous camp queen of our imaginings - effete, leisured, aesthetic, amoral, decadent, dandified. This work explores how Wilde was seen before the trials that ended his career and made him the most famous queer man since Socrates. In particular, it examines the concept of effeminacy and asks how Wilde's effeminacy was perceived.
Nonfiction,LGBT,History,GLBT,Queer Studies,Academic,Academia,Historical,Victorian
The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Moment