Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education The Oxford Classical Curriculum /

• Main Author: Grech, Leanne (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; British literature.; Motion pictures.; Queer theory.; Philology.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Queer Studies.; Classical Studies.

This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde's aestheticism. It positions Wilde as a classically trained intellectual and outlines the path he took to gain recognition as a writer and promoter of the aesthetic movement. This narrative is conv...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Greek Forms and Gothic Cloisters
• 2. Popery and Paganism: Divided Loyalties in the Travel Poems
• 3. American Beauty: Aestheticism Across the Atlantic
• 4. Civilizing England: Oxford, Empire, and Aesthetic Education
• 5. Fervent Friendships: Oxford Platonism and The Picture of Dorian Gray
• 6. Wilde and Douglas: Redefining the Beloved
• 7. Epilogue: Some Thoughts on Aesthetic Education.