Overview
- Provides the first comprehensive analysis of Oscar Wilde’s history with Oxford University ?
- Presents an interdisciplinary approach, combining research in nineteenth-century literature, culture and history, with recent classical reception scholarship
- Argues that Wilde promotes aesthetic consumption as a means of recreating the university environment, and the milieu of Victorian Oxford in the privacy of the home
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (6 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
“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)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education
Book Subtitle: The Oxford Classical Curriculum
Authors: Leanne Grech
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14374-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14373-2Published: 15 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14374-9Published: 06 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 273
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Queer Studies, Classical Studies