Contribution to Book
Wilde on Trial: Psychic Injury, Exhibitionism and the Law
Processes of Institutionalisation: Case Studies in Law, Prison, and Censorship,
(2001)
Abstract
A reassessment of Oscar Wilde's conviction for sexual offenses. Wilde's trial responded to polarization in fantasies of respectability in late Victorian culture, with the fear of social death underlying anxieties about homosexuality.
Keywords
- Wilde,
- sexuality,
- law,
- censorship,
- exhibitionism,
- subversion
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring 2001
Editor
Uwe Boeker
Citation Information
kirby farrell. "Wilde on Trial: Psychic Injury, Exhibitionism and the Law" Processes of Institutionalisation: Case Studies in Law, Prison, and Censorship, (2001) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kirby_farrell1/5/