Introduction
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??????????? Part III: The Artistic Counterforce and the Problem of Modernity
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Chapter I: Vera, or the Nihilists: The first Wildean Superman
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Chapter II: Not for Children: The Development of Nihilism in the Fairy Tales
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Chapter III: A poisonous book: Nihilism as Sickness and Art as the Cure in
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Chapter IV: No law for anybody: Nihilism as Anarchy in The Soul of Man
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Chapter V: The most supreme of individualists: Christ and the Conquest of
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Conclusion: French by Sympathy: Gide and Proust as the Aesthetic Heirs of Wilde
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wildes major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement.
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wildes major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement. The book covers Wildes plays, the fairy tales, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the critical writings, and De Profundis to show how Wildes thinking about nihilism developed over the course of his career, profoundly influencls)
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