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From Reading to Rio: Oscar Wilde in Brazil
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2021
Abstract
This essay examines the reverberations of the Oscar Wilde trials in Brazil, using it to probe how a “widening” of Victorian studies might work and arguing that looking beyond the use nodes of comparison enriches our understanding of the long nineteenth century.
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- Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 49 , Special Issue 1: Special Issue: The Wide Nineteenth Century , Spring 2021 , pp. 139 - 170
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- Copyright © The author(s), Cambridge University Press 2021
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Forman, Ross G. “Theater of the Impressed: The Brazilian Stage in the Nineteenth Century.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies 4/5 (2001): 91–102.Google Scholar
Foucault, Michel. The Will to Knowledge. Vol. 1 of The History of Sexuality. Translated by Hurley, Robert. London: Penguin, 1978.Google Scholar
Fry, Peter. Para inglês ver: Identidade e política na cultura brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar Editores, 1982.Google Scholar
Green, James N. Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.Google Scholar
Green, James N, and Ronald Polito. Frescos trópicos: Fontes sobre a homosexualidade masculina no Brasil (1870–1980). Rio de Janeiro: Editora José Olympio, 2004.Google Scholar
Hirsch, Adam J. The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Hofmeyr, Isabel. Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Houlbrook, Matt. Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Kaplan, Morris B. Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
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Puri, Tara. “Indian Objects, English Body: Utopian Yearnings in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South.” Journal of Victorian Culture 22, no. 1 (2017): 1–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Racine, Karen. “‘This England and This Now’: British Cultural and Intellectual Influence in the Spanish American Independence Era.” Hispanic American Historical Review 90, no. 3 (2010): 423–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rappaport, Erika. A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Wilde, Oscar. A Ballada do Enforcado. Translated by Elysio de Carvalho. Rio de Janeiro: Edição do Brasil Moderno/Typographia Alinda, 1899.Google Scholar
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