Wilde's Other Worlds

By Petra Dierkes-Thrun and Michael F. Davis

Book Overview

Taking its cue from Baudelaire's important essay "The Painter of Modern Life," in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a "man of the world," this collection of essays presents Oscar Wilde as a "man of the world" who eschewed provincial concerns, cultural conventions, and narrow national interests in favor of the wider world and other worlds-both real and imaginary, geographical and historical, physical and intellectual-which provided alternative sites for exploration and experience, often including alternative gender expression or sexual alterity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815363591
• ISBN13: 9780815363590
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"