Twentieth Century Literature, December 22nd, 2000
"The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations" (94). These sentences comprise one of Oscar Wilde's best known epigrams. The first suggests that, in the book of nature and Western culture, life originates in the male-female dyad. The second suggests that the end of life is apocalyptic in one of two ways. Topically, revelations occur in the reports of sex scandals in the late-Victorian press. More generally, "Revelations" refers to the vision of existence as the battle of the sexes, a battle that both in the book of Revelation and in general usage can char...
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