The Picture of Dorian Gray & Cecil Dreeme
Gothic Beauty, Gender Disguise, and Moral Transgression in Nineteenth-Century FictionBy Oscar Wilde, Theodore Winthrop
Length23h 2m
About this audiobook
Pairing two provocative nineteenth-century novels, The Picture of Dorian Gray & Cecil Dreeme traces the uneasy intersections of aestheticism, urban modernity, gender performance, and forbidden desire. Its juxtaposed narratives move from Gothic moral fable and epigrammatic social satire to romantic mystery and psychological exploration, revealing how the period's literature tested the limits of respectability. The volume's central portraits—of beauty cultivated into corruption and identity fashioned against convention—make it a particularly rich study in the doubleness of Victorian and fin-de-siècle culture. Oscar Wilde and Theodore Winthrop represent distinct but convergent currents in nineteenth-century Anglo-American writing. Wilde's cultivated paradoxes and decadent sensibility belong to the aesthetic movement's challenge to bourgeois morality, while Winthrop's earlier fiction engages transatlantic romance, reform-minded social observation, and emergent questions of sexual and gender identity. Read together, these voices complicate linear accounts of literary history: the collection illuminates continuities between mid-century experiments in self-fashioning and later aesthetic and queer modernities. This volume is recommended for readers of Victorian literature, Gothic fiction, gender studies, and the history of aestheticism. It offers the unusual educational advantage of placing divergent styles and cultural moments in direct conversation, inviting close attention to beauty, disguise, desire, ethics, and social judgment. Students and general readers alike will find in these paired works a wide-ranging dialogue about identity's costs and possibilities.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length23 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 14, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Luck of Barry Lyndon (Annotated)
26CHAPTER IX.
2Original 1890 Version
27CHAPTER X.
3CHAPTER I
28CHAPTER XI.
4CHAPTER II
29CHAPTER XII
5CHAPTER III
30CHAPTER XIII.
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6CHAPTER IV
31CHAPTER XIV.
7CHAPTER V
32CHAPTER XV.
8CHAPTER VI
33CHAPTER XVI.
9CHAPTER VII
34CHAPTER XVII.
10CHAPTER VIII
35CHAPTER XVIII.
11CHAPTER IX
36CHAPTER XIX.
12CHAPTER X
37CHAPTER XX.
13CHAPTER XI
38Cecil Dreeme
14CHAPTER XII
39Biographical Sketch of the Author
15CHAPTER XIII
40Stillfleet and His News
16Revised & Expanded 1891 Version
41Chrysalis College
17THE PREFACE
42Rubbish Palace
18CHAPTER I.
43The Palace and Its Neighbors
19CHAPTER II.
44Churm Against Densdeth
20CHAPTER III.
45Churm As Cassandra
21CHAPTER IV.
46Churm’s Story
22CHAPTER V.
47Clara Denman, Dead
23CHAPTER VI.
48Locksley’s Scare
24CHAPTER VII.
49Overhead, Without
25CHAPTER VIII.
50Overhead, Within
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