Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle / / Deaglán Ó Donghaile.
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 Wilde’s cor...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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