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

Foldy, Michael S.

ISBN 10: 0300071124 / ISBN 13: 9780300071122

Published by Yale University Press, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300071124
• ISBN 13: 9780300071122
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good

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Synopsis

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.