Author: Patrick M. Horan
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Horan asserts that Speranza's love of Irish myth fostered young Wilde's love of fantasy, which is evidenced in his fairy tales and The Picture of Dorian Gray. He concludes that Wilde wrote fantasy, in part, to identify humanity's inhumanity, to acknowledge that love is often unreciprocated, and to affirm the naturalness of homosexuality.