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Oscar Wilde Eros and Aesthetics

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Patricia Flanagan Behrendt

    1. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Eros and Aesthetics

    • Patricia Flanagan Behrendt
    Pages 1-20

  3. Sexual Drama in the Early Poetry

    • Patricia Flanagan Behrendt
    Pages 21-62

  4. Sexuality and Death: The Fate of Wilde’s Heterosexual Lovers

    • Patricia Flanagan Behrendt
    Pages 63-92

  5. Eroticism and the Dialogic Form

    • Patricia Flanagan Behrendt
    Pages 93-118

  6. The Dandy Coup de Théâtre: Homosexual Eros and the London Stage

    • Patricia Flanagan Behrendt
    Pages 119-178

  7. Epilogue: Speaking the Unspeakable

    • Patricia Flanagan Behrendt
    Pages 179-182

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 183-194
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This study explores the relationship between Wilde's treatment of sexual subject matter and the development of his literary aesthetics from the earliest volume of poetry through the social comedies which highlighted his career. In addition, the study considers the earliest critical responses to Wilde's works, since they reveal how references to sexual subject matter, particularly to homoerotic themes, were received in Wilde's own period.

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  • University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

    Patricia Flanagan Behrendt

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