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Afterword
Between July and November of 2014 volunteers gradually covered the moat around the Tower of London in 888,246 ceramic red poppies, one for every British and British colonial life lost in the First World War. F...
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Sexual Gnosticism: Male Procreation and ‘The Portrait of Mr W. H.’
In Sodom on the Thames, an exploration of late-Victorian male same-sex love through its legal manifestations leading up to the Wilde trials, Morris B. Kaplan dedicates considerable space to the homoerotic coterie...
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Love of the Impossible: Wilde’s Failed Queer Theory
Wilde’s collection of poems, generally known now as Poems 1881, constituted his first significant publication and his first resounding failure. Having been a conspicuous academic success, first at Trinity College...
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Priests of Keats: Wilfred Owen’s Pre-War Relationship to Wilde
In 1936, William Butler Yeats famously excluded the Great War combatant poets from his Oxford Book of Modern Verse. In the Introduction to that volume, he justified his decision as a matter of thematics and, more...
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Introduction
This book traces the development of Oscar Wilde’s thoughts and theories about the artistic importance of male same-sex relations and contends that these theories were passed on to Wilfred Owen, who in turn use...
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Shades of Green and Gray: Dual Meanings in Wilde’s Novel
In February of 1892 Wilde asked a number of his friends, including one of the actors, to wear a green carnation to the opening night of Lady Windermere’s Fan. When one of the chosen coterie, Graham Robertson, ask...
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Oscar and Sons: The Afterlife of Male Procreation
My previous chapter ended with the image of certain of Wilde’s texts as his misbehaving children: rambunctious little brats who refuse to demonstrate the theories that they are supposed to uphold. In this scen...
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OW/WH/WO: Wilfred Owen as Symbolic Son of Oscar Wilde
To retrace our steps momentarily to Chapter 4, Oscar Wilde had two literal sons. The youngest, Vyvyan, was only nine years old at the time of his father’s criminal conviction. Vyvyan’s autobiography describes ...
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Conclusion
I have said relatively little about the material aspect of Hollinghurst’s work, of his methods, or of those influences that he himself has acknowledged. And I have, with few exceptions, not contrived to situat...
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Introduction
Lord Charles Nantwich, the eccentric octogenarian of Alan Hollinghurst’s 1988 debut novel The Swimming-Pool Library, is certainly not lacking in unusual habits. In his world, phone calls are ended in midsentence,...
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Influence, Image, and the Movement of Time
It has perhaps been the millennial rise of the neo-modern, historical novel — from Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) to A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book (2009) — which has asked readers, once again, to consider ‘gene...
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The Poets of Our Time: Lateness and Pedagogical Influence in The Folding Star
At the centre of The Folding Star lies a poetry textbook with an enticing name: Poets of Our Time. ‘The thing about Our Time was that it was really Our Fathers’ Time’ Edward Manners realizes, after spying on his ...
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Spitting Images: Image, Text, and the Popular Press in The Line of Beauty
In the conspicuously static tableau vivant that opens The Line of Beauty, a socially naïve 20-year-old examines the display in a shop window on Gower Street, not far from University College London: ...
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Introduction: Feminine Occupations
‘I will begin by saying, for the encouragement of would-be writers, that there never was a greater opening for short stories than at present, for magazines multiply nowadays faster than do good writers.’ So be...
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Braddon, Broughton, and Specters of Social Critique
Victorian homes, like Victorian women, could earn reputations. The pervasiveness of Victorian ghost stories revolving around the haunted house point to the vulnerability of that location. In much of mid-Victor...
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Baynton and Mansfield’s Unsettling Women
In February 1913, Sydney was abuzz with excitement regarding ‘The Bush Girl’. A stage melodrama ‘entirely Australian [abounding] in sparkling incidents of bush life’, the play was packed with ‘picturesque scen...
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Sun-Worship and the Idolatry of Images: Derek Jarman, Philip Glass, and The Swimming-Pool Library
The thematic trajectory of The Swimming-Pool Library is outlined in an early scene in which William Beckwith first visits the elderly aristocrat Charles Nantwich at his home on Skinner’s Lane, not far from St Pau...
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Almost Always: Influence, Ecstasy, and Architectural Imagination in The Spell
In Hollinghurst’s first two novels, the portrayals of opera, film, and Symbolist art serve to unsettle the line of influence that connects one generation to the next and defines one generation in contrast to a...
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The Latterday Sortes Virgilianae: Confirmation Bias and the Image of the Poet in The Stranger’s Child
Perhaps even more thoroughly than Hollinghurst’s earlier fiction, The Stranger’s Child absorbs and redistributes the visual vocabulary of modern gay writing in a process first observed when Joseph Bristow noted t...
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Spinsters Re-Drawing Rooms in Gaskell’s Cranford
The labels of’ spinster’ and ‘old maid’, in Victorian rhetoric, indicated much more than years and marital status. To fail to marry was to be relegated to an almost-invisible social position, to face the trial...
