Description:
This book reads Oscar Wilde's literary texts in relation to his open support for revolutionaries, along with his expressions of solidarity with Irish republicans, anarchists, workers and migrants.
Brief description: Deaglán Ó Donghaile is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool John Moores University. His first book, Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism was published by EUP in 2011. His research focuses on the relationship between literature, political culture and violence in late nineteenth and early twentieth century writing.
Review Quotes: Ó Donghaile... advances a case for Wilde's entire body of work as an expression of radical political thinking. Considering Wilde's liminal place in English history, exiting the Victorian era and pointing at the modernism to come, this argument represents a useful intervention into Wilde's place in the intellectual history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland and England. The accessible prose and scrupulous research in this volume serve as a well from which those interested in Wilde's political beliefs can draw.--Brice Ezell, University of Texas "Modernism/Modernity"