„Oscar Wilde – Poet, Playwright, Prisoner, Postmodernist“

Aaron Eames

Despite Oscar Wilde’s prediction before his death in 1900 the British could not stand it if he outlasted the nineteenth century, he has lived on triumphantly well into the twenty-first. His works are continually reissued and adapted, his story is endlessly examined in biography, biopic and scholarship, and he is routinely memorialised and celebrated in the public sphere. Through his epigram-studded works sparkling with wit, his dramatic rise and fall from the pinnacle of success to the depths of prison, and the prescience of his concern with style and the art of living, this talk considers why a Victorian aesthete continues to possess such international appeal.

Dr Aaron Eames is Programme Leader for the Foundation Year in Society and Culture at the University of Leicester Global Study Centre in the United Kingdom.
Eames is a committee member of the Oscar Wilde Society UK and edits their regular e-newsletter Oscariana. He has published work in The Wildean: A Journal in Oscar Wilde Studies, Victoriographies, Romance, Revolution and Reform and with Dr. Tom Ue The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature
and Culture