Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire [electronic resource] : Begotten, Not Made /
Campbell, James.author.
This book reads Oscar Wilde as a queer theorist and Wilfred Owen as his symbolic son. It centers on the concept of 'male procreation', or the generation of new ideas through an erotic but non-physical connection between two men, and it sees Owen as both a product and a continuation of this Wildean tradition.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This book reads Oscar Wilde as a queer theorist and Wilfred Owen as his symbolic son. It centers on the concept of 'male procreation', or the generation of new ideas through an erotic but non-physical connection between two men, and it sees Owen as both a product and a continuation of this Wildean tradition.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918
Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Poetry.
Sociology.
Fiction.
Literature—History and criticism.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Gender Studies.
Fiction.
Literary History.