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| Title: | What kind of love came to Professor Guildea? Robert Hichens, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Ghosts of Hyde Park |
| Authors: | Freeman, Nick |
| Issue Date: | 2016 |
| Publisher: | © Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) |
| Citation: | FREEMAN, N., 2016. What Kind of Love Came to Professor Guildea? Robert Hichens, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Ghosts of Hyde Park. Modern Language Review, 111(2), pp.333-351. |
| Abstract: | This article examines the ways in which ghost stories by Robert Hichens (1864-1950) inhabit the repressive sexual climate that followed the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895. Through a close reading of Tongues of Conscience (1900) and particularly 'How Love Came to Professor Guildea', it argues that Hichens used the ghost story as a mask for more complex investigations of homoeroticism, desire, and denial, and that the 'morbidity' contemporary critics recognized but could not pin down is closely linked to the story’s sexual ambivalence. |
| Description: | Closed access until April 2018. |
| Version: | Accepted for publication |
| DOI: | 10.5699/modelangrevi.111.2.0333 |
| URI: | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/19617 |
| Publisher Link: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.111.2.0333 |
| ISSN: | 0026-7937 |
| Appears in Collections: | Closed Access (English and Drama)
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