Abstract
![CDATA[For Wilde, however, I would argue that a post-Renaissance individualism, ‘broadly conceived as the view that the individual human subject is the maker of the world we inhabit’ is inadequate. Wilde, while a recipient of the Romantic self, can also be seen as a proto-modern, post-colonial subject, quite consciously inhabiting many worlds and many selves. As Declan Kibard has astutely observed in his chapter, ‘Oscar Wilde – The Artist as Irishman’, Wilde was ‘the first major artist to discredit the romantic ideal of sincerity and replace it with the darker imperative of authenticity: he saw that in being true to a single self, a sincere man may be false to half a dozen other selves.’]]
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The British World : Religion, Memory, Society, Culture : Refereed Proceedings of the Conference Hosted by the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, July 2nd to July 5th, 2012 |
Publisher | University of Southern Queensland |
Pages | 181-189 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780987408204 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Event | The British World : Religion, Memory, Society, Culture - Duration: 2 Jul 2012 → … |
Conference
Conference | The British World : Religion, Memory, Society, Culture |
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Period | 2/07/12 → … |
Keywords
- Irish literature
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900