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Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire

Begotten, Not Made

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  • © 2015

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  1. James Campbell

    1. University of Central Florida, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • James Campbell
    Pages 1-22

  3. Sexual Gnosticism: Male Procreation and ‘The Portrait of Mr W. H.’

    • James Campbell
    Pages 23-39

  4. Shades of Green and Gray: Dual Meanings in Wilde’s Novel

    • James Campbell
    Pages 40-76

  5. Love of the Impossible: Wilde’s Failed Queer Theory

    • James Campbell
    Pages 77-103

  6. Oscar and Sons: The Afterlife of Male Procreation

    • James Campbell
    Pages 104-135

  7. Priests of Keats: Wilfred Owen’s Pre-War Relationship to Wilde

    • James Campbell
    Pages 136-164

  8. OW/WH/WO: Wilfred Owen as Symbolic Son of Oscar Wilde

    • James Campbell
    Pages 165-191

  9. Afterword

    • James Campbell
    Pages 192-195

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 196-241
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About this book

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.

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“James Campbell pursues with considerable success an ambitious speculative argument concerning how Oscar Wilde conceived of his own sexuality (by contrast with the currently prevalent object-oriented thinking about homosexuality) and how his self-conception influenced Wilfred Owen. His highly suggestive, well-written book deserves the attention of scholars writing on Wilde, on queer theory, on the poetry of World War I, and on military masculinity. … His multiperspectival study raises significant questions that other scholars will respond to and pursue.” (John Paul Riquelme, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 61 (3), 2018)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Central Florida, USA

    James Campbell

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James Campbell is Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, USA.

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