Manliness In Late Victorian Novels The Picture Of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde And Bram Stokers Dracula

Author : Lisa Schreinemacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783668992658
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manliness in Late Victorian Novels. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker's "Dracula" written by Lisa Schreinemacher and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Bonn (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: From time immemorial gallant ideals, bravery and fearlessness have been universal characteristics of manliness. In regards to manly ideals of the Victorian Era it is hard to fully grasp all of the ideals that spread through the 19th century. Many different theories and new findings shaped those characteristics of Victorian manliness. Therefore, the ideals of manliness are very divergent. The Victorian man was many things, brave, physically strong, independent and moral. One way to find out more about manly ideals is by examining resources from this time, for example literature. For that reason, this study is concerned with the ideals of manliness during the Victorian Era and its depiction in Late Victorian literature, to be precise, in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Picture of Dorian Gray, the only novel by Oscar Wilde, was first published in 1890. A substantially revised and expanded edition was published in April 1891. For the new edition, Wilde revised the content of the novel's existing chapters, divided the final chapter into two chapters, and created six entirely new additional chapters. Whereas the original edition of the novel contains 13 chapters, the revised edition of the novel contains 20 chapters. The 1891 version was expanded from 13 to 20 chapters, but also toned down, particularly in some of its overt homoerotic aspects. Also, chapters 3, 5, and 15 to 18 are entirely new in the 1891 version, and chapter 13 from the first edition is split in two (becoming chapters 19 and 20). The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Dorian is selected for his remarkable physical beauty, and Basil becomes strongly infatuated with Dorian, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode of art. The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered one of the last works of classic gothic horror fiction with a strong Faustian theme. It deals with the artistic movement of the decadents, and homosexuality, both of which caused some controversy when the book was first published. However, in modern times, the book has been referred to as "one of the modern classics of Western literature. Oscar Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his only novel (The Picture of Dorian Gray), his plays and poetry, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

Author : Carol A. Senf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313013365
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction written by Carol A. Senf and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-10-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known today as the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker also wrote several other works, including The Jewel of Seven Stars, Lady Athlyne, and The Lair of the White Worm. In his exploration of supernatural subjects, such as vampirism, he is clearly a Gothic writer. The fantastic elements of his novels seem very much at odds with the world of science. Stoker, nonetheless, draws upon a large body of scientific theory and technological innovation throughout his writings. This book studies his blending of Gothic subjects with emerging discoveries in science and technology. The volume begins with an overview of Stoker's familiarity with scientific and technical developments. It then examines the role of science and technology in his various works, which demonstrate his familiarity with civil engineering, anthropology, physics, chemistry, and archaeology. While many of his writings seem to offer a rather uncritical celebration of science and its applications, some works, such as The Jewel of Seven Stars, reveal what happens when science oversteps its bounds. Stoker emerges as an early writer of science fiction whose work thoughtfully considers the place of science in society.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : ePenguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141439570
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman inthe eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.

Author : Michael Justine Sales
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychopathology of the Victorian Man: A Psychoanalytic Study of Masculinity in Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction written by Michael Justine Sales and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores the structural and psychic limitations of Victorian masculinity, which have been concealed and repressed at the time by dominant phantom ideals of the Victorian man as a stable and coherent subject. The goal of this thesis is to radically reimagine the figure of the Victorian man and to show that Victorian masculinity is a social construction riddled with gaps, inconsistencies, and tensions between a man’s psychic reality and his symbolic role within the social context he is operating under. The primary works included are Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. My thesis deviates from other queer readings of masculinity by mostly focusing on male heterosexual desires and highlighting the pathological aspects in their construction of selfhood. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, I argue that Dorian has an intimate relationship with the death drive and his fascination with the imaginary rapidly devolves into pathological narcissism and psychosis. The portrait, then, becomes the catalyst for male-ego annihilation as Dorian starts seeking pleasures beyond the confines of the symbolic order. In Dracula, I argue that Jonathan Harker suffers from a psychosexual dysfunction where he can only project desire on a debased sexual object and can only love through an elevated object like Mina. The Madonna/whore complex afflicts not just Jonathan, but also the other male characters in the text. The encounter with the monstrous feminine threatens the ontological existence of these Victorian men as their inability to process unconventional and uncanny women apart from this binary exacerbates anxiety, hysteria, and trauma.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781670092878
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray (Illustrated) written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories, and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day.

Author : Martin Middeke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110394219
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900 written by Martin Middeke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I of this authoritative handbook offers systematic essays, which deal with major historical, social, philosophical, political, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the English novel between 1830 and 1900. The essays offer a wide scope of aspects such as the Industrial Revolution, religion and secularisation, science, technology, medicine, evolution or the increasing mediatisation of the lifeworld. Part II, then, leads through the work of more than 25 eminent Victorian novelists. Each of these chapters provides both historical and biographical contextualisation, overview, close reading and analysis. They also encourage further research as they look upon the work of the respective authors at issue from the perspectives of cultural and literary theory.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674068041
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel’s first editor, who feared it would be “offensive” to Victorians.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
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Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray Annotated written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had-in the words of biographer Richard Ellmann-";a different look."; Yet the Dorian Gray that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as ";vulgar,"; ";unclean,"; ";poisonous,"; ";discreditable,"; and ";a sham."; Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, J. B. Lippincott & Company, Wilde's uncensored typescript is published for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition.The novel's first editor, J. M. Stoddart, excised material-especially homosexual content-he thought would offend his readers' sensibilities.