Wilde and Coleridge Critics

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Richard Gravil
"Christabel consciously deconstucts the gender bias of Gothic and is centered on the cruel domination and marginalization of women"
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Kerry Powell
"Simultaneously it seeks to dismantle and to preserve the double standard as it applies to women"
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Lady Chiltern was described as...
"abnormally moral" and even "unwomanly" by the first critics of the play
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Chris Innes
"each of Wilde's comedies ends with the reassertion of moral standards"
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Katherine Worth
Mabel and Goring- "embodying Wilde's ideas on how to live for the best"
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Alan Bird
"the basic hypocrisy of English society"
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Curt Guyette
"the women delights in taunting him"
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Houghton
"Wilde holds women up as potential transformers of society, recognizing the second area of power for women; as the angels of the home"
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Wilde
"a man is called affected, nowdays if he dresses as he likes to dress"
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Millar
"he urges men and women alike to accept each other... because we all have feet of clay, women as well as men"
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"Simultaneously it seeks to dismantle and to preserve the double standard as it applies to women"

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Kerry Powell

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"abnormally moral" and even "unwomanly" by the first critics of the play

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"each of Wilde's comedies ends with the reassertion of moral standards"

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Mabel and Goring- "embodying Wilde's ideas on how to live for the best"

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