Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Trials; or, Why I Digress; Part I: Against the Norm; 1 Embodying the Englishman: A Theoretical Fiction; 2 Taking Sex in Hand: Inscribing Masturbation and the Construction of Normative Masculinity; 3 Marking Social Dis-Ease: Normalizing Male ""Continence"" and the (Re)Criminalization of Male Sexuality; Part II: Pressing Issues; 4 Legislating the Norm: From ""Sodomy"" to ""Gross Indecency""
5 Typing Wilde: Construing the ""Desire to Appear to Be a Person Inclined to the Commission of the Gravest of All Offenses""6 Dis-Posing the Body: ""Gross Indecency"" and the Remapping of Male Sexuality; Epilogue: What's in a Name?; Notes; Index
Summary
Talk on the Wilde Side focuses on the formation of a new ̀type' of sexual category in the newpaper reports of the trials of Oscar Wilde, relating this to middle-class discussions of masculinity throughout the nineteenth century
