La proyección del dandismo de Wilde en sus comedias
ISSN: 0211-5913
Año de publicación: 1987
Número: 15
Páginas: 53-66
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
Resumen
Oscar Wilde remained for a long while on the frontier of modernity. A romantic projection of the author's own self, which is made evident in his literary production, prevented him from crossing that frontier until he wrote his last comedy. It is on this basis that I study the influence of Wilde's dandiacal attitudes on his society comedies, and intend to give an account of the positive process leading from the rather incongruous Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband towards that lucid portrait of dandyism entitled The Importance of Being Earnest. It is also the aim of this article to bring out the peculiar relationship existing between dandyism and bourgeois society.