Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s

by Linda Dowling

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481708
• ISBN13: 9780801481703
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher