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Article: The Picture of Dorian Gray, or, the embarrassing orthodoxy of Oscar Wilde.(Critical Essay)
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- Victorian Newsletter
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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"What's Iago's motive'? Was he just sinful?" They thought they knew but waited for a hint. He raised his hands and wept, "Evil, fucking Evil." And he meant it. And he knew what he meant.
--B.H. Fairchild "On the Passing of Jesus Freaks from the College Classroom"
Oscar Wilde is one of those rare authors perhaps equally famous for his life as for his works. When Wilde was a student at Oxford he enthralled his colleagues by decorating his room with blue vases full of lilies (the known symbol of the Pre-Raphealite Brotherhood), and is reported to have caused a stir by showing up to gallery openings in a coat made to resemble a cello. The son of a woman who ...