LEADER 04416nam 22007575 450 001 9910136124003321 005 20240605203926.0 010 $a0-226-39655-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226396552 035 $a(CKB)3710000000914966 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4526387 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001585242 035 $a(DE-B1597)523275 035 $a(OCoLC)961117101 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226396552 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000914966 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aOscar Wilde Prefigured $eQueer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900 /$fDominic Janes 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (294 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aChicago scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-226-35864-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction --$t2. Macaronis --$t3. Men of Feeling --$t4. The Later Eighteenth Century: Conclusions --$t5. Regency Dandies --$t6. Byronists --$t7. The Earlier Nineteenth Century: Conclusions --$t8. Aesthetes --$t9. New Men --$t10. The Later Nineteenth Century: Conclusions --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $a"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad," Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom-which erupted in laughter-accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a sodomite, and why was Queensbury's horror greeted with such amusement? In Oscar Wilde Prefigured, Dominic Janes suggests that what divided the two sides in this case was not so much the question of whether Wilde was or was not a sodomite, but whether or not it mattered that people could appear to be sodomites. For many, intimations of sodomy were simply a part of the amusing spectacle of sophisticated life. Oscar Wilde Prefigured is a study of the prehistory of this "queer moment" in 1895. Janes explores the complex ways in which men who desired sex with men in Britain had expressed such interests through clothing, style, and deportment since the mid-eighteenth century. He supplements the well-established narrative of the inscription of sodomitical acts into a homosexual label and identity at the end of the nineteenth century by teasing out the means by which same-sex desires could be signaled through visual display in Georgian and Victorian Britain. Wilde, it turns out, is not the starting point for public queer figuration. He is the pivot by which Georgian figures and twentieth-century camp stereotypes meet. Drawing on the mutually reinforcing phenomena of dandyism and caricature of alleged effeminates, Janes examines a wide range of images drawn from theater, fashion, and the popular press to reveal new dimensions of identity politics, gender performance, and queer culture. 410 0$aChicago scholarship online. 606 $aCaricature$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain 606 $aGay men$zGreat Britain$xCaricatures and cartoons 606 $aDandies$zGreat Britain$xCaricatures and cartoons 606 $aGay men in art 606 $aHomosexuality and art$zGreat Britain 606 $aHomosexuality$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aHomosexuality$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 610 $aMacaronies. 610 $aOscar Wilde. 610 $aaesthetes. 610 $acaricature. 610 $adandyism. 610 $afashion. 610 $ahomosexuality. 610 $aprints. 610 $aqueer. 610 $avisual culture. 615 0$aCaricature$xSocial aspects 615 0$aGay men$xCaricatures and cartoons. 615 0$aDandies$xCaricatures and cartoons. 615 0$aGay men in art. 615 0$aHomosexuality and art 615 0$aHomosexuality$xHistory 615 0$aHomosexuality$xHistory 676 $a741.56941 686 $aHL 4865$2rvk 700 $aJanes$b Dominic$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0918762 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136124003321 996 $aOscar Wilde Prefigured$92060350 997 $aUNINA