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Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siecle, Paperback / softback Book

Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siecle Paperback / softback

Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture series

Paperback / softback

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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 siecle, O 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Consisting of previously unpublished material, the book provides a politicised and historicised account of Wilde's key works by situating them within the framework of his very pronounced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.

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