The Uses and Misuses of Oscar Wilde
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Document Type
Book Chapter
Description
Chapter in Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century.
Celebrated films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee; best-selling novels by A. S. Byatt and William Gibson; revivals of Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll’s Alice, and nostalgic photography; computer graphics and cyberpunk performances: contemporary culture, high and low, has fallen in love with the nineteenth century. Major critical thinkers have found in the period the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism. And postmodern theory, which once drove a wedge between contemporary interpretation and its historical objects, has lately displayed a new self-consciousness about its own appropriations of the past. This diverse collection of essays begins a long-overdue discussion of how postmodernism understands the Victorian as its historical predecessor.
ISBN
9780816633241
Publication Date
2000
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
City
Minneapolis
Keywords
Cultural Criticism, Literature, Victorian, Fashion, England
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
Recommended Citation
Waldrep, Shelton. "The Uses and Misuses of Oscar Wilde" in "Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century", University of Minnesota Press (2000).
