The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde - Couverture rigide

Killeen, Jarlath

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754658139 ISBN 13 : 9780754658139

Editeur : Routledge, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Oscar Wilde's two collections of children's literature, The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), have often been marginalised in critical accounts as their apparently conservative didacticism appears at odds with the characterisation of Wilde as an amoral aesthete. In this, the first full-length study of Wilde's fairy tales for children, Jarlath Killeen argues that Wilde's stories are neither uniformly conservative nor subversive, but a blend of both. Killeen contends that while they should be read in relation to a literary tradition of fairy tales that emerged in nineteenth century Europe; Irish issues heavily influenced the work. These issues were powerfully shaped by the 'folk Catholicism' Wilde encountered in the west of Ireland. By resituating the fairy tales in a complex nexus of theological, political, social, and national concerns, Killeen restores the tales to their proper place in the Wilde canon.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jarlath Killeen is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Trinity College Dublin. He is also the author of The Faiths of Oscar Wilde and Gothic Ireland.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0754658139
• ISBN 13: 9780754658139
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 202