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Examines screen adaptations of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" in terms of period aesthetic in visual and literary cultures.

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Regards "The Importance of Being Earnest" as a comic-gothic genre hybrid.

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This page is a summary of: “Wonderful and Incomparable Beauty”: Adapting Period Aesthetic for The Importance of Being Earnest, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40928-3_6.
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