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<p>In April 1895, Oscar Wilde stood in the prisoner's dock of the Old Bailey, charged with "acts of gross indecency with another male person. These filthy practices, the prosecutor declared, posed a deadly threat to English society, "a sore which cannot fail in time to corrupt and taint it all." Wilde responded with a speech of legendary eloquence, defending love between men as a love "such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare." Electrified, the spectators in the courtroom burst into applause.</p> <p>Although Wilde was ultimately imprisoned, the courtroom response to his speech signaled a revolutionary moment-the emergence into the public sphere of a kind of love that had always been proscribed in English culture. In this luminous work of intellectual history, Linda Dowling offers the first detailed account of Oxford Hellenism, the Victorian philosophical and literary movement that made possible Wilde's brief triumph and anticipated the modern possibility of homosexuality as a positive social identity.</p> <p>A homosocial culture and a language of moral legitimacy for homosexuality emerged, Dowling argue

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Author

Linda Dowling, Linda C. Dowling

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801468735

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Science, Language Learning

Rating

3.72 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13