Moral transgressions against Victorian society in the tragic plays of Oscar Wilde
After Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in 1895 for acts of ‘gross indecency’, his reputation was destroyed. He was subsequently ‘dismissed as an idle aesthete, an uncommitted poseur’ and ‘a mere dandy’ (Eltis, 1996, p. 6). Critics would ultimately ignore Wilde’s lifelong engagement with socio-political...
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University of Huddersfield Press
2023-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.fieldsjournal.org.uk/article/id/1280/ |