Cohen, Ed, "Writing Gone Wilde: Homoerotic Desire in the Closet of Representation," in Critical Essays on Oscar Wilde, edited by Regenia Gagnier, G. K. Hall, 1991, pp. 68—87.
Cohen analyzes The Picture of Dorian Gray to show how even in the absence of explicit homosexual terminology or activity, a text can subvert the traditional standards and representations of appropriate male behavior.
Cohen, Philip K., The Moral Vision of Oscar Wilde, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1978, pp. 105—55.
Cohen argues that Wilde's recurrent themes are sin and salvation and a conflict between the moral perspectives of Old and New Testament, judgment and love......
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