Wilkie Collins and Oscar Wilde: Challenging Intersections Between the Male and Female Gaze in Victorian Popular Literature

Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1860) and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) are novels significant for their distinct awareness of the socio-political power of the gaze. In this essay, I will reveal how these authors use the male and female gaze in similar and contrasting ways. In...

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Main Author: Leah Henderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2018-12-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/2905