Swinburne's the statue of John Brute / by Fabio Ciambella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ciambella, Fabio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles,-1837-1909.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (89 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

Wrongly believed to be a parodic divertissement by the nineteenth-century English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Statue of John Brute reveals itself as a highly interesting intertextual universe where echoes from Shakespeare, the Restauration drama, Beckford, Gothic fiction, and many other sources of inspiration mix together in an extremely short but explosive text.At the heart of this volume is an absolutely original analysis of this relatively unknown text, meant to acknowledge its paramount importance as Oscar Wilde's source for his well-known The Picture of Dorian Gray. While trying to confute the hypotheses put forward by critics from the 1920s and 1930s who believed The Statue to be a fin-de-siècle parody of Wilde's Aesthetic masterpiece, this study anticipates its date of composition by almost twenty years - through an accurate bio-literary and corpus-stylistic analysis - thus recognising it not as a parody, but as a possible hypotext of Dorian Gray.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

The "Demoniac Youth"

Birth and childhood

Eton and Oxford

The 1860s and 70s

1879: Annus horribilis

The last period of his life

Swinburne the critic

Temperament and style

List of Swinburne's works (with dates and genres)

The Statue of John Brute: Textual Neighbourhood

Chronological matters: looking for a probable date of composition

Chronological matters: some reflections about a corpus-stylistic approach

The Statue of John Brute and its debt to Gothic literature

John and Dorian: Oscar Wilde's masterful (possible) plagiarism

"Totus mundus agit histrionem": The Statue of John Brute as pièce bien faite of atrocities

The Text: The Statue of John Brute

Appendix

References

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-5275-1045-X

OCLC:

1031847651