Article ID: CBB001550469

Oscar Wilde, Sodomy, and Mental Illness in Late Victorian England (2014)

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The article focuses on the mental state of Irish author Oscar Wilde during 1896 and how it related to his sexual history. The author explores medical records of men in Victorian England who were found not guilty of sodomy by reason of insanity, examines the care of criminal lunatics, including John Gocher, and analyzes the case of Wilde being convicted of gross indecency.

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Authors & Contributors
Wright, David
Smith, Leonard D.
Coleborne, Catharine
Peschier, Diana
Evers, David L.
Levine, George
Journals
Health and History
Social History of Medicine
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Medicina Historica
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Northern History
Publishers
University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom
Routledge
Leicester University Press
Clarendon
Bloomsbury Academic
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Medicine
Psychiatry
Hospitals and clinics
Patients
People
Wilde, Oscar
Pater, Walter
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Darwin, Charles Robert
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
Australia
England
New Zealand
Devon (England)
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