Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900
by
Dominic Janes
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
“I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad,” Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom—which erupted in laughter—accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a sodomite, and why was Queensbury’s horror...