... him that he bled yellow. In dress he apes the dandiacal associated with Charles II- (108). The identification of Captain Hook as a "dandy,"" in the wake of the trials of Oscar Wilde in 1895, is significant inasmuch as it opens the complex issue of Hook's sexuality. As Ed Cohen (in Talk on the Wilde Side) and Alan Sinfield (in The Wilde ... 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 spe...

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