Wilde Between the Sheets : Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis
by
David Walton
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1793614210
ISBN-13
9781793614216
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 14th, 2020
Print length
262 Pages
Weight
550 grams
Dimensions
15.80 x 23.60 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
IrelandUnited Kingdom, Great BritainLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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In this study of ‘De Profundis,’ Wilde is fashioned as a complex, and often ambiguous, writer. The author examines Wilde’s resourcefulness and improvisation skills in adopting essentialist or anti-essentialist positions for his own strategic ends, challenging the idea that Wilde was simply a tragic victim defeated by the penal system.
Wilde Between the Sheets: Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis argues that Oscar Wilde’s narrative strategies reveal a quick-witted, ingenious fighter—an active agent who tested boundaries and recognized the dangers of doing so, adopting essentialist or anti-essentialist strategies according to whatever shifting purpose he is writing with. David Walton challenges the one-dimensional view of Wilde as a tragic victim defeated by the penal system, arguing that Wilde constructed a self by weaving complex networks of time and paradoxical notions of space, along with a network of literary references and other intertexts. Walton goes on to claim that Wilde fashions a self while simultaneously being shaped by those he fashions, creating a critical dialogue which shows that, by constructing Wilde through interpretive acts, he has already been partially fashioned by Wilde himself.
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