ABSTRACT
Talk on the Wilde Side focuses on the formation of a new `type' of sexual category in the newpaper reports of the trials of Oscar Wilde, relating this to middle-class discussions of masculinity throughout the nineteenth century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|87 pages
Against the Norm
chapter 2|34 pages
Taking Sex in Hand
Inscribing Masturbation and the Construction of Normative Masculinity
chapter 3|25 pages
Marking Social Dis-Ease
Normalizing Male “Continence” and the (Re)Criminalization of Male Sexuality
part II|114 pages
Pressing Issues
chapter 5|47 pages
Typing Wilde
Construing the “Desire to Appear to Be a Person Inclined to the Commission of the Gravest of All Offenses”
