Monstrous desire: Dorian Gray & Gothic Homoeroticism

Created by Quinn Chisenhall on Wed, 12/08/2021 - 19:56

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Oscar Wilde and British Aestheticism (F21 LITR 388 / LITR 379H Columbia College Chicago)

Dorian Gray's place in a gothic tradition of homoerotic monstrosity

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1872

Le Fanu's Carmilla Published

This novella was the second vampire book ever published, heavilly influenced Dracula, and was notably filled with homoerotic overtones.

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1886

Jeckyll and Hyde Published

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde mirror's Dorian Gray's themes of double life, respectability, and immoral desire in a separated Victorian London.

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1897

Dracula Published

Bram Stoker's Dracula was published two years after Wilde's trial and is propelled by an undercurrent of anxiety that Stoker and other closeted writers felt in the wake of Wilde's sentencing.

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