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Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford

Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford( )
Author: Dowling, Linda
ISBN:978-1-322-50354-7
Publication Date:Jan 1994
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $37.50
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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 it all." Wilde responded with a speech of legendary eloquence, defending love between men as a love "such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of...
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Pages:192



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