Series Editor’s Preface

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Preface vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction: Wilde and Politics 1
6. Chapter 1 Anticolonial Wilde 29
7. Chapter 2 Coercion and Resistance: Vera . . . or the Land War 57
8. Chapter 3 Class, Criticism and Culture: ‘The Soul of Man Under Socialism’ 88
9. Chapter 4 Fairy Tales for Revolutionaries 120
10. Chapter 5 The Politics of Art and The Picture of Dorian Gray 150
11. Chapter 6 Civil Disobedience and The Importance of Being Earnest 174
12. Chapter 7 ‘De Profundis’, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ and the Politics of Imprisonment 200
13. Conclusion: Oscar Wilde – The Lost Revolutionary? 226
14. Bibliography 233
15. Index 246