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Recent Posts

  • I Ship Lucy and Mina December 18, 2023
  • The New Woman – Sybil and Irene November 8, 2023
  • A spectator’s aesthetic excuses November 7, 2023
  • Everything is not what it seems – The Picture of Dorian Gray November 6, 2023
  • Room for the Past November 6, 2023
  • Maybe Beauty Isn’t The Best Metric For Determining One’s Character November 5, 2023
  • Dorian as the New Mona Lisa November 5, 2023
  • Schrodinger’s Painting November 4, 2023
  • Who Was the Real Painting? November 4, 2023
  • Vain vs Vane: The Vanity of Dorian Gray November 3, 2023
  • Is Dorian Insane? November 3, 2023
  • What is art?! What does art mean?! What does Wilde mean?! November 2, 2023
  • The author-audience relationship November 2, 2023
  • Do You See What I See? Idolatry in The Picture of Dorian Gray November 2, 2023
  • My Art? Whose Art? I’ve Never Seen this Art Before in My Life! November 2, 2023
  • You’ll Be the Prince and I’ll Be the Princess: The Aesthetics of Heterosexuality in Dorian Gray November 2, 2023
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray… And Lord Henry? November 2, 2023
  • Dorian Gray’s Swagger: Beauty’s Deceptive Charm in The Picture of Dorian Gray November 2, 2023
  • The Devilishly Decadent Dorian Gray November 1, 2023
  • Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder? Dorian Gray’s Sense of Self November 1, 2023
  • Sibyl & Dorian’s intertwined deaths October 31, 2023
  • “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, The Angel, and The Devil October 31, 2023

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Resources

General Resources:

  • The Victorian Web (search)
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  • The British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians (homepage)
    • Aestheticism and decadence
    • Daughters of decadence: the New Woman in the Victorian fin de siècle  

 

 

 

 

Dracula

  • Dracula: vampires, perversity and Victorian anxieties (British Library)

Dorian Gray

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray: art, ethics and the artist  (British Library)
  • Perversion and degeneracy in The Picture of Dorian Gray  (British Library)

 

 

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