Wilde's Other Worlds |
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| Author:
| Davis, Michael F.
Dierkes-Thrun, Petra |
| Series title: | Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-351-10889-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2018 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $54.95USD $190.00USD $190.00 |
Book Description:
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Taking its cue from Baudelaire's important essay "The Painter of Modern Life," in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a "man of the world," this collection of essays presents Oscar Wilde as a "man of the world" who eschewed provincial concerns, cultural conventions, and narrow national interests in favor of the wider world and other worlds--both real and imaginary, geographical and historical, physical and intellectual--which provided alternative sites for exploration and...
More DescriptionTaking its cue from Baudelaire's important essay "The Painter of Modern Life," in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a "man of the world," this collection of essays presents Oscar Wilde as a "man of the world" who eschewed provincial concerns, cultural conventions, and narrow national interests in favor of the wider world and other worlds--both real and imaginary, geographical and historical, physical and intellectual--which provided alternative sites for exploration and experience, often including alternative gender expression or sexual alterity.