Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle

Abstract

Abstract Stajic Löfgren, Tia. Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle. University of Gothenburg: Department of Languages and Literatures, 2012. This study traces the development of the immortality-through-art theme in four novels published between the fin de siècle and the 1960s: Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita