Autor: Linda C. Dowling

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 dea …

As Dr. Dowling demonstrates, literary Decadence in this linguistic and cultural context was to reveal itself as a mode of Romanticism demoralized by philology. Decadent writers like Paler and Wilde a …

"Dowling’s compact and intelligently argued study is concerned with the late-Victorian emergence of homosexuality as an identity rather than as an activity…. [This identity] was formed out of …