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Whispers of the Unspeakable: New York and Montreal Newspaper Coverage of the Oscar Wilde Trials in 1895
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Whispers of the Unspeakable: New York and Montreal Newspaper Coverage of the Oscar Wilde Trials in 1895
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| Abstract |
The author focuses on the specific language of North American newspaper reports of British playwright Oscar Wilde's 1895 trial for "gross indecency." The author believes that looked at from a distance and from places less emotionally attached to and nationally distinct from the scandal's epicenter in London, England, provides insight into "the state of everyday public knowledge and discussion of (homo)sexuality, at least west of the Atlantic." The author's research, which involves numerous newspapers -- from the elite New York Times to the New York Herald, from the Montreal Daily Star and the Quebec Daily Mercury to such French-language papers as La Presse, La Patrie, and La Minerve -- concludes that the popular press, read transnationally, offers key insights into the developing attitudes toward and levels of interest in the newly forming identity of the "homosexual" across societies.
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Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Vol. 6
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no. 1
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1-17
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2015
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en
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Originally published in the French-language journal Rue des Beaux Arts, vol. 24 (2010). |
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Robinson, Greg. “Whispers of the Unspeakable: New York and Montreal Newspaper Coverage of the Oscar Wilde Trials in 1895.” Journal of Transnational American Studies Vol. 6, no. 1 (2015): 1–17. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/74n7c590#page-1.
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