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The Savoy: 1896. Gender in Crisis?

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The eight numbers of The Savoy which span 1896 not only postdate the Wilde trials; the magazine is doubly their descendant, in the aggressive heterosexuality with which it registers the prohibition on homosexual discourse which the trials effected, and in its birth from the ruin of The Yellow Book, that manifestation of decadence condemned by association during the trials, attacked by the mob, and finally disempowered by a censorious act of self-purification. I want to consider the dominance of male discourse in The Savoy, the male gaze and the construction of women, the relation of the magazine to the new journalism, and the curious but unmistakable efforts of twentieth-century scholarship to detoxify The Savoy’s defiant provocations and eroticism.

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Brake, L. (1994). The Savoy: 1896. Gender in Crisis?. In: Subjugated Knowledges. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23322-9_8

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