Oscar Wilde and Nihilism

Introduction

Part I: A Definition of Nothing

Part II: Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century

Part III: The Artistic Counterforce and the Problem of Modernity

Chapter I: Vera, or the Nihilists: The first Wildean Superman

Chapter II: Not for Children: The Development of Nihilism in the Fairy Tales

of Oscar Wilde

Chapter III: A poisonous book: Nihilism as Sickness and Art as the Cure in

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Chapter IV: No law for anybody: Nihilism as Anarchy in The Soul of Man

and the Social Comedies

Chapter V: The most supreme of individualists: Christ and the Conquest of

Nihilism in De Profundis

Conclusion: French by Sympathy: Gide and Proust as the Aesthetic Heirs of Wilde

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• Teorias literárias
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900

Oscar Wilde;Philosophy and Literature;De Profundis;Fairy Tales;The Soul of Man;Nihilism