TY - BOOK AU - Janes,Dominic TI - Oscar Wilde prefigured: queer fashioning and British caricature, 1750-1900 SN - 9780226396552 AV - NC1470 .J36 2016eb U1 - 741.5/6941 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Chicago, London PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Caricature KW - Social aspects KW - Great Britain KW - Gay men KW - Caricatures and cartoons KW - Dandies KW - Gay men in art KW - Homosexuality and art KW - Homosexuality KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 18th century KW - Gender identity KW - Men KW - Sexuality KW - history KW - Gender Identity KW - Homosexuality, Male KW - Aspect social KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Homosexuels masculins KW - Caricatures et dessins humoristiques KW - Dandys KW - Homosexuels masculins dans l'art KW - Homosexualité et art KW - Homosexualité KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - 18e siècle KW - Identité sexuelle KW - Hommes KW - sex role KW - aat KW - men (male humans) KW - ART KW - Techniques KW - Drawing KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Cartoons (Humor) KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; "Dammee Sammy you'r a sweet pretty Creature"; Macaronis --; Men of feeling -- The later eighteenth century: conclusions --; "Corps de beaux"; Regency dandies --; Byronists --; The earlier nineteenth century: conclusions --; "An unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde Sort"; Aesthetes --; New men --; The later nineteenth century: conclusions N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1334071 ER -