... 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 signalled class, far more than sexuality. The newly dominant middle ... "sport,"" "readiness,"" "character,"" and "religion- (15). While the last, "religion,"" is not particularly evident in Peter Pan, the others are. In Never Land, the culture of the public school is rehe...

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