Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education

The Oxford Classical Curriculum

Leanne Grech (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 273 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-14373-2 (ISBN)

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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 conveyed through a broad range of literary sources, including Wilde's travel poetry, American lectures, and canonical works like 'The Critic as Artist', The Soul of Man, The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis. This study proposes that Wilde approached aestheticism as a personalised, self-directed learning experience - a mode of self-culture - which could be used to maintain an intellectual life outside of the university. It also explores Wilde's thoughts on education and considers the significance of male friendship at Oxford, and in Wilde's life and literature.

Leanne Grech is an interdisciplinary researcher who is interested nineteenth-century culture and classical reception. She completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2016 and is currently teaching history at Trinity College, Melbourne. Her work on Wilde has been published in Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity (2017).

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.

"Grech's volume helpfully builds on existing accounts of Wilde's aesthetic vision. ... This complex book is likely to play an important role in future discussions of Wilde's relationship to intellectual culture." (Kimberly J. Stern, Review19, nbol-19.org, July 21, 2020)

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2019
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Zusatzinfo	XI, 273 p. 6 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	503 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Aestheticism • Autobiography • British and Irish Literature • classics • Fiction • Greece • Italy • Myth • Oscar Wilde • Oxford • The Picture of Dorian Gray • travel poems
ISBN-10	3-030-14373-2 / 3030143732
ISBN-13	978-3-030-14373-2 / 9783030143732
Zustand	Neuware