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Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle /

Explores the influence of contemporary radicalism over Oscar WildeOffers a new, politicised interpretation of Wilde's most famous literary worksContextualises Wilde's writing by reading it against the contemporary political crises that it addressedFocuses on archival research, drawing on W...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ó Donghaile, Deaglán (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Colección:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Wilde and Politics
  • Chapter 1 Anticolonial Wilde
  • Chapter 2 Coercion and Resistance: Vera . . . or the Land War
  • Chapter 3 Class, Criticism and Culture: 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism'
  • Chapter 4 Fairy Tales for Revolutionaries
  • Chapter 5 The Politics of Art and The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Chapter 6 Civil Disobedience and The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Chapter 7 'De Profundis', 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' and the Politics of Imprisonment
  • Conclusion: Oscar Wilde - The Lost Revolutionary?
  • Bibliography
  • Index