The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society

by Michael S. Foldy

Overview

Following Oscar Wilde's 1895 trials for committing "acts of gross indecency with men," he lost his freedom, his family, his reputation, his will to create, and even his will to live. This book sets out to examine what it was about late-Victorian society that allowed this to happen, indeed needed it to happen, and what the trials tell us about the taste and morals of late-Victorian England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300071122
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	10/20/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)