Description: Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire : Begotten, Not Made, Hardcover by Campbell, James, ISBN 1137550635, ISBN-13 9781137550637, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire explores Wilde's idea of 'male procreation', which is the begetting of new ideas through the erotic but not necessarily physical interactions of male couples. The study offers innovative readings of several of Wilde's texts, including The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome. The author connects Wilde to Wilfred Owen through two figures: Robert Ross, Wilde's first lover and literary executor; and Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, the translator of Proust and the person who most directly placed Owen into Wilde's tradition of male procreation. Th seeks to take Wilde seriously as a theorist of same-sex love while allowing for the differences between Wilde's classically based conceptions and those of the twentieth century. Likewise, it situates Owen as Wilde's symbolic son, as both a product of Wilde's theory and as a proponent of it"--
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Book Title: Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire : Begotten, Not Made
Number of Pages: X, 241 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire : Begotten Not Made
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
Subject: European / General, Modern / 20th Century, Poetry, Lgbt, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 147.7 Oz
Author: James Campbell
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Ser.
Format: Hardcover
