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Victorians would rarely have mentioned the terms “commodity” and “culture” in the same breath. Nevertheless, the last three decades have seen both subjects become key issues in the study of aestheticism and, in particular, Oscar Wilde. Such a development would not be that peculiar save for the fact that the values articulated for roughly the past 150 years under the concept of culture have often been regarded as standing in stark contrast to those associated with commodification. And yet their convergence in Wilde studies is perhaps appropriate, seeing as how paradox itself has become something of a cornerstone of scholarship on his texts, views, and life.
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Denisoff, D. (2004). Oscar wilde, commodity, culture. In: Roden, F.S. (eds) Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies. Palgrave Advances. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524309_6
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