The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society

By Michael S. Foldy

Book Overview

Following Oscar Wilde's 1895 trials for committing "acts of gross indecency with men," he lost his freedom, his family, his reputation, his will to create, and even his will to live. This book sets out to examine what it was about late-Victorian society that allowed this to happen, indeed needed it to happen, and what the trials tell us about the taste and morals of late-Victorian England.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300071124
• ISBN13: 9780300071122
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"