Oscar Wilde, Wilfred Owen, and Male Desire: Begotten, Not Made (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) - Hardcover

“James Campbell pursues with considerable success an ambitious speculative argument concerning how Oscar Wilde conceived of his own sexuality (by contrast with the currently prevalent object-oriented thinking about homosexuality) and how his self-conception influenced Wilfred Owen. His highly suggestive, well-written book deserves the attention of scholars writing on Wilde, on queer theory, on the poetry of World War I, and on military masculinity. ... His multiperspectival study raises significant questions that other scholars will respond to and pursue.” (John Paul Riquelme, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 61 (3), 2018)