Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity
Title | Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Riley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198789262 |
"Celebrated now and during his lifetime as a wit and aesthete, Oscar Wilde was also a talented classicist whose writings evince an enduring fascination with Graeco-Roman antiquity. This volume explores the impact of the classical world on his life and work, offering new perspectives on canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material."--
Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
Title | Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Ross |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 297 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1107020328 |
Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.
British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece
Title | British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | S. Evangelista |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 203 |
Release | 2009-05-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230242200 |
This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical Greece among English aesthetic writers of the nineteenth century. By exploring this history of reception, it aims to give readers a new and fuller understanding of literary aestheticism, its intellectual contexts, and its challenges to mainstream Victorian culture.
Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education
Title | Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education PDF eBook |
Author | Leanne Grech |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2019-04-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030143740 |
This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism. It positions Wilde as a classically trained intellectual and outlines the path he took to gain recognition as a writer and promoter of the aesthetic movement. This narrative is conveyed through a broad range of literary sources, including Wilde’s travel poetry, American lectures, and canonical works like ‘The Critic as Artist’, The Soul of Man, The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis. This study proposes that Wilde approached aestheticism as a personalised, self-directed learning experience – a mode of self-culture – which could be used to maintain an intellectual life outside of the university. It also explores Wilde’s thoughts on education and considers the significance of male friendship at Oxford, and in Wilde’s life and literature.
Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood
Title | Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Bristow |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 2017-11-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319604112 |
This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde’s interest in children’s culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children’s rights within the prison system, his fascination with youthful beauty, and his theological contemplation of what it means to be a child in the eyes of God. The collection also examines the ways in which Wilde’s works—not just his fairy stories—have been adapted for young audiences.
Greek Epigram in Reception
Title | Greek Epigram in Reception PDF eBook |
Author | Gideon Nisbet |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 398 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199662495 |
Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the interpretations of Ancient Greece in British print culture.
Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination
Title | Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Eastlake |
Publisher | Classical Presences |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2019-01-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198833032 |
Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire, and these manifold and often contradictory representations are used as vehicles equally to capture the martial virtue of Wellington and to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar Wilde. In the works of Thomas Macaulay, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling, among others, Rome emerges as a contested space with an array of possible scripts and signifiers which can be used to frame masculine ideals, or to vilify perceived deviance from those ideals, though with a value and significance often very different to ancient Greek models. Sitting at the intersection of reception studies, gender studies, and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies across discourses ranging from education and politics, this volume offers the first comprehensive examination of the importance of ancient Rome as a cultural touchstone for nineteenth-century manliness and Victorian codifications of masculinity.