Introduction: Wilde and Politics
Introduction: Wilde and Politics
Addressing the political dimensions of Wilde’s aesthetic practice, the introduction to this monograph assesses his place within the discrete material and political culture of the fin de siècle. Contrary to contemporary representations of Wilde as effete, it explains how his aesthetic radicalism was informed by and contributed to a broader set of progressive political initiatives. It historicises his place within the progressive literary-political scene of the 1880s and 1890s by pointing to his personal and ideological connections with socialists, anarchists and Irish separatists.
Keywords: Wilde, Anarchism, Socialism, Aestheticism, Culture, Fin de siècle
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