Oscar Wilde
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Overview
Subject area
ENG
Catalog Number
4380
Course Title
Oscar Wilde
Department(s)
Description
This course considers Oscar Wilde’s life and writings in the context of late-Victorian England, renowned as much for its scandalous challenges to the status quo as for its excessive concern for propriety. Wilde’s comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, his essay “The Decay of Lying,” and his novel The Picture ofDorian Gray, published to outrage and protest in 1890, will be investigated along with key currents in fin-de-siècle arts and culture, and Wilde’s infamous court trials.
Typically Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer
Academic Career
Undergraduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3
Requisites
029036