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008 141014s1994 nyua ob 001 0 eng d
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050 0 4 _aPR468
_b.H455 1994
049 _aNTA
100 1 _aDowling, Linda C.,
_d1944-
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245 1 0 _aHellenism and homosexuality in Victorian Oxford /Linda Dowling.
260 _aIthaca :
_bCornell University Press,
_c(c)1994.
300 _a1 online resource (xvi, 173 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _aAesthete and effeminatus --
_tVictorian manhood and the warrior ideal --
_tThe Socratic eros --
_tThe higher sodomy.
520 0 _aIn 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 --
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650 0 _aEnglish literature
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aHomosexuality and literature
_zEngland
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aGreek philology
_xStudy and teaching
_zEngland
_zOxford
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aClassicism
_zEngland
_zOxford
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aGay men
_zEngland
_zOxford
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 4 _aFilhellenisme.
650 0 4 _aHomoseksualiteit.
650 0 4 _aVictoriaanse tijd.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=843729&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell