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Decadents and Wagnerites: Beardsley and Wilde
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Abstract
The publication of Wilde’s Dorian Grayin 1891 has become a landmark in histories of British decadence.2 The novel’s preface was a manifesto of amoral anti-utilitarian art; its pages were littered with references to French decadent literature; and its protagonist was an effete hedonistic aesthete. It became one of the most contentious British novels of the decade, and an exemplary ‘decadent’ work. A seminal text from many critical perspectives-aesthetic, biographical, sexual, and legal-its centrality rests both on its subject and stylistics, and on the crucial part that it played in Wilde’s trials of 1895.
Title: Decadents and Wagnerites: Beardsley and Wilde
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Abstract
The publication of Wilde’s Dorian Grayin 1891 has become a landmark in histories of British decadence.
2 The novel’s preface was a manifesto of amoral anti-utilitarian art; its pages were littered with references to French decadent literature; and its protagonist was an effete hedonistic aesthete.
It became one of the most contentious British novels of the decade, and an exemplary ‘decadent’ work.
A seminal text from many critical perspectives-aesthetic, biographical, sexual, and legal-its centrality rests both on its subject and stylistics, and on the crucial part that it played in Wilde’s trials of 1895.
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