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What kind of love came to Professor Guildea? Robert Hichens, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Ghosts of Hyde Park
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.
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- English and Drama
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Modern Language ReviewVolume
111Issue
2Pages
333-351Citation
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.Publisher
© Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2016-04-30Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Modern Language Review and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.111.2.0333ISSN
0026-7937eISSN
2222-4319Publisher version
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- en