From the Felon’s Cell: The Subaltern Ballads of Lady Jane and Oscar Wilde

What is it about?

This essay examines Lady Jane Wilde’s ballads of Irish resistance together with Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment and his ballad from prison, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Thinking of Lady Jane Wilde, a consistently understudied figure in nineteenth-century literary studies, in close relation to Oscar Wilde illuminates the resistance of both authors to imperialism and its penal institutions.

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