Drama: TIOBE AO3 Flashcards
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what were wilde’s parents
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bohemian liberals
2
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aestheticism
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- art about elevation of taste and pure pursuit of beauty not morality
- this was alarming for conventional victorians
3
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wilde as an aesthete
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claimed life imitates art and presented himself as impeccably dressed and a mannered dandy figure who’s life was a work of art
4
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influence of pater
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- praised individualism
- acknowledged hidden desires
5
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decadence
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- process of decline
- valuing artificiality over nature
- interest in transgressive sexuality
6
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wilde as a feminist
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- acknowledged their struggle to assert rights against victorian convention
- writer and editor of the woman’s weekly
7
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homosexuality
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imprisoned for relationship w lord alfred douglas
8
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cigarette case
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wilde made a habit of giving inscribed cigarette cases to young male lovers/friends
9
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the new woman
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- figure who was free spirited, independent, uninterested in marriage and children
- cultural icon from fin de siecle that threatened conventional values of ideal victorian womanhood
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the new woman in society
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- feminist and social reformer
- poet or playwright who addressed female suffrage
11
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the new woman in literature
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- mirrored attitudes of society
- eg. diana of crossways/the woman who did with issues such as gender roles, double standards and financial dependence
12
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dandy
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- a man who pays attention to his appearance, dress and lifestyle to excess
- wilde’s comedies make references to ideal masculinity eg. An Ideal Husband
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fin de siecle
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- era of change in gender roles and masculinity
14
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genre
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- comedy of manners
- melodrama
- comic structure
15
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social references
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- using forenames was avoided so using them = intimacy in relationship
