Publication

2015-09-16 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

60,250 words, Guess

Page Count

241 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101137550635
  • ISBN-139781137550637
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015018354
  • OCLC Control Number909320889
  • Better World Books9781137550637
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPR5827.H63 C37 2015
  • LCCPN849.G74PN770-PN779

Description

"Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire explores Wilde's idea of 'male procreation', which is the begetting of new ideas through the erotic but not necessarily physical interactions of male couples. The study offers innovative readings of several of Wilde's texts, including The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome. The author connects Wilde to Wilfred Owen through two figures: Robert Ross, Wilde's first lover and literary executor; and Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, the translator of Proust and the person who most directly placed Owen into Wilde's tradition of male procreation. The book seeks to take Wilde seriously as a theorist of same-sex love while allowing for the differences between Wilde's classically based conceptions and those of the twentieth century. Likewise, it situates Owen as Wilde's symbolic son, as both a product of Wilde's theory and as a proponent of it"--

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