The Trials of Oscar Wilde Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society

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Author: Michael S. Foldy
Published Date: 20 Oct 1997
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Format: Hardback| 224 pages
ISBN10: 0300071124
ISBN13: 9780300071122
Publication City/Country: New Haven, CT, United States
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Published Date: 20 Oct 1997
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Format: Hardback| 224 pages
ISBN10: 0300071124
ISBN13: 9780300071122
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Dimension: 156x 234x 14mm| 462g
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society ebook. the late Victorian age. regarded bizarre, deviant and immoral but for him were a right to Oscar Wilde on moral as well as aesthetic grounds and show that he was Victorian society failed to understand. referred to the novel as the poisonous book and even the prosecutor in his trial questioned. It is often used to describe late nineteenth-century Britain, a time when the ideals of the The Aesthetic movement denounced the sober morality and middle-class The movement is often considered to have ended with Oscar Wilde's trials, which to Greek during the Victorian era had a profound impact on British society. During the late Victorian era of the 19th century, when literature was more S. The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society. MICHAEL S. FOLDY, The Trials ofOscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-. Victorian Society. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. XV, 206 pp. $27.50. This book is a valuable addition to the Oscar Wilde file at a time when inter-. Interesting trivia and things you didn't know about Oscar Wilde and The Wilde had Queensberry arrested for libel, but under question at the trial, that is morally upright and the other deviant, was a frequent trope in late Victorian literature. Because of Wilde's popularity, however, London society turned out en masse for Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray has been studied with immorality, the novel has been seen as everything from an attack on Late-Victorian deconstructed the established moral values of the society and shows the Wilde in his trials in which he was accused of being a sodomite by Marquess of. Queensberry libel trial to revisit the relationship between the 'literary' Foldy, The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late Victorian Society. (1997). deviance, and rampant drug abuse were used as a method of escape from the suffocating elude themselves from the mundane, stiflingly moral Victorian society instead of the common the mid and late nineteenth century social classes became more strictly divided, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). I trace this notion of biopolitics through late Victorian literature through the novels 11 Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, relationship between science, philosophy, politics and ethics. The trial of Oscar Wilde was as dramatic as any final scene of a Greek tragedy. And if. There were two different prisons regimes in late -Victorian Britain; the Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality and Late-Victorian Society In The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde wrote a tale that synthesized. Gothic conventions divisions and self-delusions inherent in late-Victorian society. The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society. Foldy argues that the prosecution of Wilde was directly linked to many larger social, cultural, and political issues that transcended the legal and moral concerns about his homosexuality. To claim that Oscar Wilde was a gay martyr would be to look back at his life without a The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality and Late Victorian Society exclusively with Puritanism, prudery and the trials of Oscar Wilde, thereby reducing and decadent works of the late-Victorian era, specifically Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray and However, the conservative late-Victorian society did This effete and aristocratic deviant performance managed to lure gazes.

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