Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education: The Oxford Classical Curriculum

ISBN-13: 9783030143732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 273 str.

Leanne Grech

Recenzje

"Grech's volume helpfully builds on existing accounts of Wilde's aesthetic vision. ... This complex book is likely to play an important role in future discussions of Wilde's relationship to intellectual culture." (Kimberly J. Stern, Review19, nbol-19.org, July 21, 2020)

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Greek Forms and Gothic Cloisters.- 2. Popery and Paganism: Divided Loyalties in the Travel Poems.- 3. American Beauty: Aestheticism Across the Atlantic.- 4. Civilizing England: Oxford, Empire, and Aesthetic Education.- 5. Fervent Friendships: Oxford Platonism and The Picture of Dorian Gray.- 6. Wilde and Douglas: Redefining the Beloved.- 7. Epilogue: Some Thoughts on Aesthetic Education.

O autorze

Leanne Grech is an interdisciplinary researcher who is interested nineteenth-century culture and classical reception. She completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2016 and is currently teaching history at Trinity College, Melbourne. Her work on Wilde has been published in Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity (2017).