Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and male desire : begotten, not made / James Campbell, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida, USA.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, James, 1964- author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Criticism and interpretation.

Wilde, Oscar.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Relations with men.

Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918--Criticism and interpretation.

Owen, Wilfred.

Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918--Relations with men.

Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

Male homosexuality in literature.

Male homosexuality--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Male homosexuality.

History.

Relations with men.

Criticism and interpretation.

Great Britain.

Man-woman relationships.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 241 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction

1. Sexual Gnosticism: Male Procreation and The Portrait of Mr W. H.

2. Shades of Green and Gray: Dual Meanings in Wilde's Novel

3. Love of the Impossible: Wilde's Failed Queer Theory

4. Oscar and Sons: The Afterlife of Male Procreation

5. Priests of Keats: Wilfred Owen's Pre-War Relationship to Wilde

6. OW/WH/WO: Wilfred Owen as Symbolic Son of Oscar Wilde

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137550637

1137550635

OCLC:

909320889