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The Life of Oscar Wilde: a Study of Victorian Sexuality History 481: The The Life of Oscar Wilde: A Study of Victorian Sexuality History 481: The Major Seminar 2 Sean Dixon Professor Beers April 29, 2011 Bibliography Secondary Sources Books Behrendt, Patricia Flanagan. Oscar Wilde: Eros and Aesthetics . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991. Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend . Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde . New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Foldy, Michael S. The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Glick, Elisa. Materializing Queer Desire: Oscar Wilde to Andy Warhol . Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. Guy, Josephine M. Studying Oscar Wilde: History, Criticism, and Myth . 1880-1920 British authors series no. 22. Greensboro, NC: ELT Press, 2006. Himmelfarb, Gertrude. 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