The paper will focus on the major characters in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray,exploring their new hedonic ways of lifestyles through their daily practices of consumption.It will reveal that the aestheticism a...The paper will focus on the major characters in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray,exploring their new hedonic ways of lifestyles through their daily practices of consumption.It will reveal that the aestheticism advocated by Wilde is not irrelevant to industrial social background,which is even produced by full materialized consumer society.An obsession with sensual pleasure is exactly individual'sdesire for self-realization against the traditioanl social convention.展开更多
文摘The paper will focus on the major characters in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray,exploring their new hedonic ways of lifestyles through their daily practices of consumption.It will reveal that the aestheticism advocated by Wilde is not irrelevant to industrial social background,which is even produced by full materialized consumer society.An obsession with sensual pleasure is exactly individual'sdesire for self-realization against the traditioanl social convention.
