The Importance of Being Earnest - Research Article from World Literature and Its Times

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 20 pages of information about The Importance of Being Earnest.

The Importance of Being Earnest - Research Article from World Literature and Its Times

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 20 pages of information about The Importance of Being Earnest.
This section contains 5,614 words
(approx. 19 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy The Importance of Being Earnest Encyclopedia Article

by Oscar Wilde

Born in Dublin in 1854, Oscar Wilde was the son of the distinguished surgeon Sir William Wilde and of Jane Francesca Elgee, a feminist and ardent proponent of Irish nationalism. After studying classics at Trinity College, Dublin, Wilde won a scholarship to Oxford University, where he earned a reputation as a brilliant scholar. After his graduation in 1878, Wilde took up residence in London, where he soon established himself as a writer and leader of a new aesthetic movement that championed “art for art’s sake” and promoted the works of contemporary French poets and critics. Witty, outspoken, and flamboyant, Wilde enjoyed great success as a spokesman for aestheticism in both England and America; he also attracted considerable notoriety—in 1881, Sir William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan poked fun at Wilde and aestheticism in their comic opera, Patience...

(read more)

This section contains 5,614 words
(approx. 19 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy The Importance of Being Earnest Encyclopedia Article
Copyrights
Gale
The Importance of Being Earnest from Gale. ©2008 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.