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In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding theories of sexuality and desire. Fully updated for this second edition, the volume presents new and extended discussion of queer and transgender theory, race, ethnicity and desire, a new preface summarising changes in the field since the first edition, a new glossary, annotated further reading section and bibliography. Considering all of the major movements in the field, this new edition is the ideal guide for students of literary and cultural studies

In what respects might we consider decadence as a historical concept? And in what ways do literary writings associated with the fin-de-siècle decadent tradition approach the question of history? In response to these two interrelated questions, 'Decadent Historicism' discusses the manner in which writings and artworks identified as decadent reveal a preoccupation with the historical authority that four different gender-transitive icons from Classical Rome and a broadly conceived Renaissance exert upon late-Victorian sexual modernity. The first example is the young transgender Syrian emperor known posthumously as Elagabalus, whose sexual insubordination fascinated Simeon Solomon, J.-K.Huysmans, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and Oscar Wilde. The second case study is the sexually ambiguous Elizabethan boy-actor 'Mr. W. H.,' who emerges in the short homoerotic fiction that Oscar Wilde wove around him in 1889. The third section of the presentation shifts to Vernon Lee's long-standing interest in the legendary castrato Carol Boschi (Farinelli), in both her early story 'A Culture Ghost; or, Winthrop's Adventure' (1881) and its subsequent recasting as 'Voix Maudite' (1887) and 'A Wicked Voice' (1890). The final instance is the 'fair girl-boy' pantomime dancer Pylades in Michael Field's Roman Trilogy (1898-1903), whose politically contentious performances reveal his power as a bearer of cultural and historical knowledge. In each case, these performers exist in perilous proximity to pain, punishment, and death.

On 25 May 1895, Oscar Wilde went to jail after three humiliating trials – the first was Wilde's failed suit against the Marquess of Queensberry who libelled him for 'posing as a sodomite'; and the subsequent two involved the Crown's prosecution of Wilde for committing acts of gross indecency with other men. This article revisits the trials by looking at sources that paint a rather different picture from the influential one that Ed Cohen and Alan Sinfield established in the 1990s. First, it shows that the prosecution persuaded the jury that it was far worse for Wilde to have committed sodomy on two young blackmailers (who also engaged in male prostitution) than the kinds of extortion of which, as they freely admitted, they were culpable. Secondly, the discussion suggests that it is unreasonable to claim that the trials defined the modern identity of the male homosexual.

Reprint of editorials covering the period May 23 1917-Mar. 18, 1918. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Pornography, Technology, Archive -- PART I Pedagogical Archives -- 1 Pornography, Porno, Porn: Thoughts on a Weedy Field -- 2 Pornography as a Utilitarian Social Structure: A Conversation with Frances Ferguson -- 3 The Opening of Kobena, Cecilia, Robert, Linda, Juana, Hoang, and the Others -- 4 Pornography in the Library -- PART II Historical Archives -- 5 "A Quantity of Offensive Matter": Private Cases in Public Places -- 6 Up from Underground -- 7 "A Few Drops of Thick, White, Viscid Sperm": Teleny and the Defense of the Phallus -- PART III Image Archives -- 8 Art and Pornography: At the Limit of Action -- 9 Big Black Beauty: Drawing and Naming the Black Male Figure in Superhero and Gay Porn Comics -- 10 Gay Sunshine, Pornopoetic Collage, and Queer Archive -- 11 This Is What Porn Can Be Like! A Conversation with Shine Louise Houston -- PART IV Rough Archives -- 12 Snuff and Nonsense: The Discursive Life of a Phantasmatic Archive -- 13 Rough Sex -- 14 "It's Not Really Porn": Insex and the Revolution in Technological Interactivity -- PART V Transnational Archives -- 15 Porno Rícans at the Borders of Empire -- 16 Butts, Bundas, Bottoms, Ends: Tracing the Legacy of the Pornochanchada in A b . . . profunda -- 17 Pornographic Faith: Two Sources of Naked Sense at the Limits of Belief and Humiliation -- 18 Parody of War: Pleasure at the Limits of Pornography -- PART VI Archives of Excess -- 19 Fantasy Uncut: Foreskin Fetishism and the Morphology of Desire -- 20 Stadler's Boys; or, The Fictions of Child Pornography -- 21 Stumped -- APPENDIX Clandestine Catalogs: A Bibliography of Porn Research Collections -- FILMOGRAPHY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX