Introduction: The Scales of Decadence
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Recent scholars have been captivated by the indeterminate potentialities that decadence sets not in contradiction to, but disarming misstep with, Victorian claims of individual, social, and global systems operating harmoniously toward a singular order. These also happened to privilege aspirations middle class, patriarchal machinery, white British colonial expansionism, anthropocentric privilege. In scene The Importance Being Earnest (1895), Oscar Wilde offers particularly pithy encapsulation this effective obliqueness extensibility relation cultural norms. character Algernon enters room and, on seeing his endearing cousin Gwendolen, complement, “Dear me, you are smart,” which she replies, “I am always smart!” retort's brash overconfidence is diluted sense Gwendolen perhaps misunderstood what meant; he was complementing her looks, may thought referring intellect. If so, then clearly as sharp claims. But even if did understand him was, like him, appearance, comment destabilizing; it renders flat Algernon's attempt complement appealing at particular moment. Either way, response somehow off. And when suitor Jack follows up bit banter declaring “quite perfect,” again rebuffs complement: “Oh! I hope that. It would leave no for developments, intend develop many directions.” humor arises because charmingly construing conventional philosophical, seeming inability quite others mean, way taking simple compliment scaling almost level epistemological or metaphysical.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Victorian literature and culture
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1060-1503', '1470-1553']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150320000194