Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle 1st Edition by Deaglán Ó Donghaile ISBN 1474459447 9781474459440

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ISBN 10: 1474459447
ISBN 13: 9781474459440 
Author: Deaglán Ó Donghaile

Offers a new, politicised interpretation of Wilde’s most famous literary worksContextualises Wilde’s writing by reading it against the contemporary political crises that it addressed Focuses on archival research, drawing on Wilde’s correspondence, reviews, interviews, unpublished lectures and speechesProvides a theoretical approach to Wilde’s subversive opinions on the problems posed by capitalism, property and empire, and how he consistently opposed the authority of the state in bourgeois-imperial BritainClarifies the relationship between Wilde’s aestheticism, his anticolonial beliefs and his support for anarchism
This book reads Oscar Wilde’s literary texts in relation to his open support for revolutionaries, along with his expressions of solidarity with Irish republicans, anarchists, workers and migrants. Framing Wilde’s literary writing in relation to his very active participation in the radical political culture of the fin de siècle, Ó Donghaile argues that, contrary to contemporary representations of Wilde as an effete and socially disengaged figure, his aesthetical radicalism was informed by and contributed to a broader set of progressive political initiatives being pursued at the end of the nineteenth century.
Consisting of previously unpublished material, the book provides a politicised and historicised account of Wilde’s key works by situating them within the framework of his very pronounced ideological commitment to these radical political causes.

Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle 1st Edition Table of contents:

• Aestheticism and Anarchism

  • Wilde’s Engagement with Socialist and Anarchist Thought
  • The Influence of William Morris and Peter Kropotkin
  • Decadence as Political Defiance

• The Critique of Victorian Morality

  • Wilde’s Challenge to Social Norms
  • Gender, Sexuality, and the Subversion of Respectability
  • The Politics of Pleasure and Individualism

• The Soul of Man Under Socialism: Wilde’s Revolutionary Vision

  • Utopian Socialism and the Rejection of Capitalism
  • Individualism and the Role of the Artist
  • Reimagining Freedom and Justice

• Wilde and the Politics of the Stage

  • Subversive Satire in His Comedies
  • Theatricality as a Tool of Social Critique
  • The Interplay of Gender and Class in His Plays

• Trials and Punishment: Wilde as a Political Martyr

  • The Criminalization of Desire
  • Class, Law, and Injustice in Wilde’s Conviction
  • Incarceration and the Politics of Suffering

• De Profundis and the Radicalization of Wilde’s Thought

  • Redemption, Reflection, and Revolutionary Ideas
  • Wilde’s Evolving Critique of Power and Authority
  • The Afterlife of His Political Philosophy

• Oscar Wilde’s Legacy in Radical Thought

  • Wilde’s Influence on 20th and 21st Century Activism
  • Queer Politics and the Legacy of Aesthetic Rebellion

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