SOSC 3992 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Cross-Dressing, Bourgeoisie, Death Of Caylee Anthony
15 May 2016
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2:38 pm (1) how does oscar wilde come into conflict with the law and with the dominant ideological visions of 19th century england. Contests ideology of class separation by associating with lower class men. He is even contesting the ideology that art should be moral, he simply creates art for the sake of art, for beauty and aesthetics, and this is not ok in victorian england. Wilde"s art contests political ideologies, he challenged the bourgeoisie/ capitalist system, in dorian gray, he contested the idea of greed and wealth as something admirable. The purpose of kaplan"s article is to analyse the way queensberry and his lawyers were able to turn the libel trial against queensberry into a trial against wilde, his literature, his behaviours, and the company he kept. Carson, queensberry"s lawyer, tried to connect dorian gray, a supposedly homoerotic book, to wilde"s reality.
