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Wilde On Trial: Psychic Injury, Exhibitionism And The Law, Kirby Farrell Prof
Wilde On Trial: Psychic Injury, Exhibitionism And The Law, Kirby Farrell Prof
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A reassessment of Oscar Wilde's conviction for sexual offenses. Wilde's trial responded to polarization in fantasies of respectability in late Victorian culture, with the fear of social death underlying anxieties about homosexuality.