Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
AcknowledgementsA Guide to AbbreviationsIntroduction 1. Sexual Gnosticism: Male Procreation and The Portrait of Mr W. H.2. Shades of Green and Gray: Dual Meanings in Wilde's Novel3. Love of the Impossible: Wilde's Failed Queer Theory4. Oscar and Sons: The Afterlife of Male Procreation5. Priests of Keats: Wilfred Owen's Pre-War Relationship to Wilde6. OW/WH/WO: Wilfred Owen as Symbolic Son of Oscar WildeAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
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.