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The Importance of Being Different
- Disability in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales
Engelsk Paperback
The Importance of Being Different
- Disability in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales
Engelsk Paperback

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Understanding Oscar Wilde’s characteristically unique approach to writing difference Over the course of his remarkable career, Oscar Wilde published two volumes of fairy tales: The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates. Both collections feature numerous stories with protagonists who may be said to be disability-aligned, owing to their pronounced physical differences. In The Importance of Being Different, Chris Foss explores the way that Wilde’s stories problematically replicate many of the Victorian era’s typical responses to disability but also the ways they diverge, offering a more progressive orientation—both through more sympathetic identifications with disability-aligned characters and through a self-conscious foregrounding of the mechanisms of pity and the consumption of pain. The first ever monograph to examine Wilde’s work through a disability studies lens, this groundbreaking book encompasses all of his fairy tales as well as his writings during and after imprisonment. Even though Wilde unflinchingly represented the extent to which these peculiar bodies suffered rejection by society, he encouraged his readers to embrace them and to advocate for emotional responses that engage love and kindness toward both individual transformation and social change.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
182
ISBN-13:
9780813953014
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0813953014
Udg. Dato:
30 apr 2025
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
University of Virginia Press
Oplagsdato:
30 apr 2025
Forfatter(e):
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