Premium Content Trollope's and Wilde's Depictions of Victorian Society
By Anonymous - April 07, 2007
Through the scope of a satirical lens, both Anthony Trollope’s novel Barchester Towers and Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest take turns examining the carefully structured norms of courtship and marriage in Victorian England. Marital pursuits abound between many of their major characters, and the relations between men and women…
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