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ready to die on the hill of if jane austen was a man her books would be labeled as primarily satire. "dismissing romance as a genre is sexist" ok but not every story with a romance is a romance novel

bethanydelleman

read this and got curious about how Oscar Wilde's plays are described, since they are extremely similar to Austen's works:

Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearlessly mocked the hypocrisy and snobbery of Victorian society and took gleeful delight in appearing to trivialize its most sacred institutions. With its premiere on Valentine's Day 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest – a hilarious comedy of mistaken identities and coruscating language – was a phenomenal success (source)

3 couples get married at the end of The Importance of Being Earnest, yet the description here mentions nothing about romance. Only comedy. (and yes, I know a play is a comedy if people get married vs. die at the end, but still!)

#jane austen #oscar wilde

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THE oscar wilde reading them for filth i'm screaming i LOVE the gilded age so much

#the gilded age #the gilded age spoilers #oscar wilde #period drama

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“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”

― Oscar Wilde

#CompostTheRich #EatTheRich

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I originally listed Anthony Trollope but cut him in favor of Oscar Wilde for reasons (Wilde is better, imo). So, if your favorite 19th Century English Lit author isn't listed, you can yell at me in the comments, or reblogs, or through an ask.

oscar was fully irish 😭😭😭

bookwormchocaholic

My bad. I stand corrected...

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I originally listed Anthony Trollope but cut him in favor of Oscar Wilde for reasons (Wilde is better, imo). So, if your favorite 19th Century English Lit author isn't listed, you can yell at me in the comments, or reblogs, or through an ask.

bookwormchocaholic

The people (well, 582 of you) have spoken - Jane Austen is the favorite! Oscar Wilde was second. Poor Anne Bronte and Thomas Hardy came in last. Thanks to everyone who voted and shared this poll. Going to do another one later.

#jane austen #charles dickens #emily bronte #charlotte brontë #anne bronte #george eliot #thomas hardy #mary shelley #elizabeth gaskell #oscar wilde #19th century literature #english literature

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I originally listed Anthony Trollope but cut him in favor of Oscar Wilde for reasons (Wilde is better, imo). So, if your favorite 19th Century English Lit author isn't listed, you can yell at me in the comments, or reblogs, or through an ask.

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1 day and 2 hours left to vote!

#jane austen #charles dickens #emily bronte #charlotte brontë #anne bronte #george eliot #thomas hardy #mary shelley #elizabeth gaskell #oscar wilde #19th century literature #english literature #signal boost

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I originally listed Anthony Trollope but cut him in favor of Oscar Wilde for reasons (Wilde is better, imo). So, if your favorite 19th Century English Lit author isn't listed, you can yell at me in the comments, or reblogs, or through an ask.

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You have 1 day and 20 hours left to vote!

#jane austen #charles dickens #emily bronte #charlotte brontë #anne bronte #george eliot #thomas hardy #mary shelley #elizabeth gaskell #oscar wilde #19th century literature #english literature #literature #books

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#Books #oscar wilde #banned books

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I originally listed Anthony Trollope but cut him in favor of Oscar Wilde for reasons (Wilde is better, imo). So, if your favorite 19th Century English Lit author isn't listed, you can yell at me in the comments, or reblogs, or through an ask.

#jane austen #charles dickens #emily bronte #charlotte brontë #anne bronte #george eliot #thomas hardy #mary shelley #elizabeth gaskell #oscar wilde #19th century literature #english literature #literature #books #favorite authors

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I originally listed Anthony Trollope but cut him in favor of Oscar Wilde for reasons (Wilde is better, imo). So, if your favorite 19th Century English Lit author isn't listed, you can yell at me in the comments, or reblogs, or through an ask.

#jane austen #charles dickens #emily bronte #charlotte brontë #anne bronte #george eliot #thomas hardy #mary shelley #elizabeth gaskell #oscar wilde #19th century literature #english literature #signal boost #a room with a queue #classic literature #literature #victorian literature #regency literature

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I originally listed Anthony Trollope but cut him in favor of Oscar Wilde for reasons (Wilde is better, imo). So, if your favorite 19th Century English Lit author isn't listed, you can yell at me in the comments, or reblogs, or through an ask.

#jane austen #charles dickens #emily bronte #charlotte brontë #anne bronte #george eliot #thomas hardy #mary shelley #elizabeth gaskell #19th century literature #oscar wilde #english literature #signal boost

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I originally listed Anthony Trollope but cut him in favor of Oscar Wilde for reasons (Wilde is better, imo). So, if your favorite 19th Century English Lit author isn't listed, you can yell at me in the comments, or reblogs, or through an ask.

#jane austen #charles dickens #emily bronte #charlotte brontë #anne bronte #george eliot #thomas hardy #mary shelley #elizabeth gaskell #oscar wilde #19th century literature #english literature #next day reblog #signal boost

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I originally listed Anthony Trollope but cut him in favor of Oscar Wilde for reasons (Wilde is better, imo). So, if your favorite 19th Century English Lit author isn't listed, you can yell at me in the comments, or reblogs, or through an ask.

#jane austen #charles dickens #emily bronte #charlotte brontë #anne bronte #george eliot #thomas hardy #mary shelley #elizabeth gaskell #oscar wilde #19th century literature #english literature

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Anonymous asked:

So now Oscar Wilde is also cancelled??

firstgrave answered:

y’all need to discover a term that isn’t “cancelled”. he’s straight fucking dead lmao no one is “canceling” his career or some shit. ppl are rightfully acknowledging that he was racist and antisemitic and pedophilic and that he’s not the pinnacle of old gay rep lmao grow the fuck up

“why are u cancelling Oscar Wilde 😢😢” meningitis cancelled Wilde in 1900 let it gooo already

#oscar wilde #didn't know this

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twostarsinonesphere

carlton-lassiter-lesbian asked:

why do you not like Wilde?

twostarsinonesphere answered:

because he was anti-semitic, supported slavery, treated his wife horribly, and was also a vain hedonist who represented everything i hate about the aristocracy.

he wrote very well, though. the picture of dorian gray and the importance of being earnest are two of the most brilliant things i've ever read. i just very much dislike the man.

#oscar wilde #Interesting

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featuresofinterest

fun fact for you all: bram stoker started writing dracula just weeks after oscar wilde’s conviction…….we really are in it now

Dracula! And Oscar Wilde! YES! *drops papers everywhere*

I’ll just casually drop this here–it’s a long (and good) read, but essentially, the author argues that:

Stoker wrote Dracula as a direct reaction to the Wilde trials
Many of Dracula’s characteristics actually echo Wilde as described to the trials, and Dracula’s lifestyle resembles an exaggerated version of precautions to hide homosexuality
Stoker is basically the pro-closeted 1890s alternative to Wilde’s flamboyancy, and that comes out in how he portrays Dracula and Jonathan Harker
Like if you look deeper into Stoker’s letters to Whitman, he’s practically obsessed with feeling “naturally secretive” and “reticent”
(Also he and Wilde had some weird personal rivalry going on, since Stoker married Wilde’s definitely-not-straight ex-fiancee, though later they were friendly…there’s a lot to unpack here)
So, arguably, Dracula was Stoker’s way of apologizing for his silence during Wilde’s trials.

Some highlights:

Wilde’s trial had such a profound effect on Stoker precisely because it fed Stoker’s pre-existing obsession with secrecy, making Stoker retrospectively exaggerate the secrecy in his own writings on male love.

It is difficult, Stoker admits, to speak openly about “so private a matter” as desire. In carefully calibrated language, Stoker asks forgiveness from those who might see that his silence is a sin-to those few nameless souls who know his secret affinity with Wilde.

Since Dracula is a dreamlike projection of Wilde’s traumatic trial, Stoker elaborated and distorted the evidence that the prosecutor used to convict Wilde. In particular, the conditions of secrecy necessary for nineteenth-century homosexual life–nocturnal visits, shrouded windows, no servants–become ominous emblems of Count Dracula’s evil.

Dracula…represents not so much Oscar Wilde as the complex of fears, desires, secrecies, repressions, and punishments that Wilde’s name evoked in 1895. Dracula is Wilde-as-threat, a complex cultural construction not to be confused with the historical individual Oscar Wilde.

tl;dr:

Stoker is actually too repressed to function
Oscar Wilde (especially his trials) absolutely influenced Stoker
Dracula gay

#Dracula #bram stoker #Oscar Wilde

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marianhalcombes

Edward John Poynter, An Evening at Home (1888) | Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (1905)

society6 | literature + art | sappho + art

#oscar wilde #books #freedom #flowers #life goals

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