The Aesthetics and Ethics of Emotion in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Associate professor of Literature Anna Jörngården Galili contributes to a new anthology published by Oxford University Press.
Oscar Wilde 1882. William Andrews Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles
A collection of new essays devoted to Oscar Wilde's classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray published by Oxford University Press presents new critical work by prominent scholars that deal with numerous aspects of the famed novel.
Anna Jörngården Galili contributes to the volume with the essay “Fin-de-siècle Feelings: Melodrama and the Aesthetics and Ethics of Emotion in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.”
Anna Jörngården Galili is a senior lecturer and associate professor of Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics. Her research is is comparatively and transnationally orientated and operates mainly in the fields of cultural memory studies and postcolonial theory.
Last updated: 2025-12-15
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics