“Art with poisonous honey stolen from France” : Oscar Wilde and Decadent imitations between England and France

This thesis studies national conceptions of sexuality and the geo-politics of the Decadent movement in the writing and the literary afterlife of the Irish author and critic Oscar Wilde. In his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his play Salomé, Wilde’s French influences are immediately appa...

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Main Author: Posthumus, Michaela
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46923