In this video, Dr Andrew Smith, Reader in 19th Century Literature at University of Sheffield is back at Hardwick Hall. He explores how Wilde’s tale represents tensions between England (the Old World) and America (the New World) in the selling of an old English country house.
We will also explore how the tone of the tale shifts between the Gothic and the sentimental and how in the end there is a coming together of the English and the American, suggesting a new, positive, Anglo-American identity, which resolves some of the earlier national tensions.
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