Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)
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From his boyhood Oscar Wilde was haunted by the literature and culture of ancient Greece, but until now no full-length study has considered in detail the texts, institutions and landscapes through which he imagined Greece. The archaeology of Celtic Ireland, explored by the young Wilde on excavations with his father, informed both his encounter with the archaeology of Greece and his conviction that Celt and Greek shared a hereditary aesthetic sensibility,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1107479940
ISBN13:9781107479944
Release Date:January 2015
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:298 Pages
Weight:0.88 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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