... the unspoken possibility, haunts the scene. The negative connotations of "lurking- are deliberate, because by the time Barrie wrote Peter Pan the dissident figure of the homosexual as pathological and criminal was established in the cultural imaginary of England through press accounts of the trials of Oscar Wilde. The castigation of Wilde in the popular press speaks to an already established ... Empire seems to have depended on the homosocial. The result of the anxiety around homosexuality was the 1885 Labouchere amendment, which made homosexual acts, whether in public or in private, cr...

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