Hellenism and homosexuality in Victorian Oxford /Linda Dowling.
Dowling, Linda C., 1944-
Hellenism and homosexuality in Victorian Oxford /Linda Dowling. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)1994. - 1 online resource (xvi, 173 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Aesthete and effeminatus -- Victorian manhood and the warrior ideal -- The Socratic eros -- The higher sodomy.
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 Michelangelo and Shakespeare." Electrified, the spectators in the courtroom burst into applause. Although Wilde was ultimately imprisoned, the courtroom response to his speech signaled a revolutionary moment --
9780801468742
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Homosexuality and literature--History--England--19th century.
Greek philology--Study and teaching--History--England--Oxford--19th century.
Classicism--History--England--Oxford--19th century.
Gay men--History--England--Oxford--19th century.
Filhellenisme.
Homoseksualiteit.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Electronic Books.
PR468 / .H455 1994
Hellenism and homosexuality in Victorian Oxford /Linda Dowling. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)1994. - 1 online resource (xvi, 173 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Aesthete and effeminatus -- Victorian manhood and the warrior ideal -- The Socratic eros -- The higher sodomy.
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 Michelangelo and Shakespeare." Electrified, the spectators in the courtroom burst into applause. Although Wilde was ultimately imprisoned, the courtroom response to his speech signaled a revolutionary moment --
9780801468742
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Homosexuality and literature--History--England--19th century.
Greek philology--Study and teaching--History--England--Oxford--19th century.
Classicism--History--England--Oxford--19th century.
Gay men--History--England--Oxford--19th century.
Filhellenisme.
Homoseksualiteit.
Victoriaanse tijd.
Electronic Books.
PR468 / .H455 1994