Wilde, Oscar

This study examined Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which foreshadows the Victorian period, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, which reflects on it. The two novels are both monster stories that share many similarities, including themes of creativity and morality. However…

This thesis argues that Oscar Wilde anticipates Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s concept of reparative reading. In 2003’s Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity, Sedgwick argues that the hermeneutics of suspicion–whereby the reader exposes the unjust power structures lying be…

My project proposes a revision of Modernism to account for marginal sexualities, race, and colonization in British, American, and Arabic Francophone literature. In order to make visible the "racial industry" at work in Modernism, I center my discussion on two recurrent figures: …

The lengthy Victorian period, extending from 1832 until 1901, was a time of cultural turmoil. New scientific discoveries were being made daily, and Christianity was forced to deal with issues of Darwinism, occultism, and growing disbelief in God. By the start of the fin de siècl…