Final: Context

Final: Context

1. Beloved

   • Abiku
   • Margaret Garner
   • Harriet Tubman
     • Emancipation Act of 1863
   • Slavery
     • Transatlantic Trade
     • The Middle Passage
     • Civil War
     • Oppression, Repression and Suppression
     • Fuigtive Slave Law Act
   • Harlem Renaissance
     • Zora Neale Thurston
   • Southern Gothic
   • Male Gaze
   • Magic Realism
   • Male Gaze
     • Patriarchal Society
   • Civil Right's Movement
   • 2nd and 3rd wave feminist movements

2. The Picture of Dorian Gray

   • Aesthetic movement
     • ‘A Rebours’ (Against Nature) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
     • “art for arts sake”
       • Rejection of the moral purposes of art
     • The Dandy
   • Decadent Movement
     • Walter Pater
       • Alienated Paterian Aesthetic
     • ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ is the key work of the British decadence.
   • Victorian Era
     • Opium Export and Imports
       • Opium Dens
     • Social Classes
     • Victorian fascination with the idea of duality and the doubles
     • fin-de-siecle
   • Charles Maturin
     • Author of ‘Melmoth the Wanderer’ which was a Gothic novel about the undead immortality
     • Oscar Wilde’s uncle
   • Supernatural
   • The Gothic
   • Male Gaze
   • Hedonism
   • Narcissim
   • Homosexuality
     • Illegal in Victorian Era
     • Wilde was a homosexual
       • Sir Douglas
         • Sir Douglas introduced Wilde into the underground world of male prostitutes
         • Sir Douglas had painted Wilde as “one of the most powerful forces for evil” and destroyed his reputation
   • Dr Faustaus
     • Selling of the soul to the devil