... as arrested in his development, invested in the culture of youth, inclined to pederasty. Given that the "lost boys- are dead, a sexuality that eroticizes death could be added to the list of anxieties about the homosexual. Captain Hook, rather than being obviously homosexual, is a dandy. As Sinfield suggests in " Effeminacy' and Femininity': Sexual Politics in Wilde's Comedies,"" Dandy effeminacy ... suggested, implicated in establishing codes of manliness associated with a virtuous Englishness that justified imperialism. He suggests that "public schools sought to inculcate four qualiti...

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