This essay, which offers a brilliant and surprising account of the relationship between Oscar Wilde and the reclusive Emily Dickinson, was first published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations
Topics and Keywords:
Dandyism; Emily Dickinson; Oscar Wilde, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Monthly, Aestheticism, American and British Pre-Raphaelite painters
About the author
Dr Paraic Finnerty is a Reader in English and American Literature at the Centre for Studies in Literature, University of Portsmouth.