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

ISBN-13: 9780300071122 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 224 str.

Michael S. Foldy

Opis

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.