ENGL 359 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Walter Pater, Constance Lloyd, Decadent Movement
12 Jan 2015
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Art should be free from moral, political, or social concerns. Mother literary salons, well known nationalist writer. William wilde father, surgeon, eye doctor. Baptized as a roman catholic as well because of mother. Fairytales had to make them conform to hegemonic norms (middle class) Walter pater one of the first writers associated with aesthetic movement. Publishes collections of fairytales 1888 happy prince (happy prince, selfish giant), 1891 house of pomegranates (young king) both collections successful. Picture of dorian gray anxious about morality, victorian era (conservative in terms of social and moral concerns) Wilde says there is no such thing as an immoral book, badly written or well written. Wilde says it is for anyone who is childlike between. After this, wilde becomes a well-known playwright and marries constance wilde. 1895, height of his fame, plays being performed on stage. Marcus of queensbury accuses wilde of being a sodomite.
