Book contents
- Oscar Wilde in Context
- Oscar Wilde in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- An appreciation
- Part I Placing Wilde
- Part II Aesthetic and critical contexts
- Part III Cultural and historical contexts: ideas, iterations, innovations
- Chapter 18 Oscar Wilde’s crime and punishment: fictions, facts and questions
- Chapter 19 Wilde and evolution
- Chapter 20 Dandyism and late Victorian masculinity
- Chapter 21 Oscar Wilde and the New Woman
- Chapter 22 Oscar Wilde and socialism
- Chapter 23 Wilde and Christ
- Chapter 24 Aestheticism
- Chapter 25 Journalism
- Chapter 26 The censorship of the stage: writing on the edge of the allowed
- Chapter 27 Feminism
- Chapter 28 Wilde and the law
- Part IV Reception and afterlives
- Further reading
- Index
Chapter 19 - Wilde and evolution
from Part III - Cultural and historical contexts: ideas, iterations, innovations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2013
- Oscar Wilde in Context
- Oscar Wilde in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- An appreciation
- Part I Placing Wilde
- Part II Aesthetic and critical contexts
- Part III Cultural and historical contexts: ideas, iterations, innovations
- Chapter 18 Oscar Wilde’s crime and punishment: fictions, facts and questions
- Chapter 19 Wilde and evolution
- Chapter 20 Dandyism and late Victorian masculinity
- Chapter 21 Oscar Wilde and the New Woman
- Chapter 22 Oscar Wilde and socialism
- Chapter 23 Wilde and Christ
- Chapter 24 Aestheticism
- Chapter 25 Journalism
- Chapter 26 The censorship of the stage: writing on the edge of the allowed
- Chapter 27 Feminism
- Chapter 28 Wilde and the law
- Part IV Reception and afterlives
- Further reading
- Index
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- Oscar Wilde in Context , pp. 211 - 219Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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