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Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854–1900)

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Field of work
Essay
Drama
Esthetics

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  • Images from the collections
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  • Related topics

Images from the collections

Images featuring Oscar Wilde

2 images from works
  • Oscar Wilde. Process print, ca. 1910.
  • Oscar Wilde. Process print, ca. 1910.

Works from the collections

13 works

    • Books

    Bachelors of a different sort : queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain / John Potvin.

    Potvin, John | Date: 2014
    • Pictures

    Oscar Wilde and a boy. Etching by J.E. Kelly, 1882.

    Kelly, James Edward, 1855-1933. | Date: [1882] | Reference: 15326i
    • Books

    Sodom on the Thames : sex, love, and scandal in Wilde times / Morris Kaplan.

    Kaplan, Morris B. | Date: 2005
    • Books

    The Wilde century : effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the queer moment / Alan Sinfield.

    Sinfield, Alan. | Date: [1994], ©1994
    • Books

    The trials of Oscar Wilde : deviance, morality, and late-Victorian society / Michael S. Foldy.

    Foldy, Michael S., 1953- | Date: [1997], ©1997

Related topics

United Kingdom
Homosexuality, Male
History, 19th Century
Gay men

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