Publication details

'Little Porcelain Cup in Which Biting Acids Could Be Mixed': Wilde's Sons as the Audience for 'The Young King'

Authors

KAYLOR Michael Matthew

Year of publication 2004
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference New Interpretations of Cultural Phenomena
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Mass media, audiovision
Keywords Henry James; Oscar Wilde; fairy tales
Description By way of a close reading of Oscar Wilde's short story 'The Young King', this paper reveals the pederastic playfulness only barely disguised in his House of Pomegranates, a collection of fairy tales that Wilde dubiously claimed had not been written with children as its intended audience, though biographical evidence suggests that he had specifically chosen this genre - traditionally rather innocuous in its English variety - as a vehicle for what can be dubbed 'Paedobapistry'.

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