The Decadents concerned themselves with the relationship between art and life. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Underlying these comic tales of the supernatural are the concerns with morality and behaviour that are central to the more sombre Dorian Gray. Wilde’s Gothic satires prove Wolfreys’s point about the adaptability of Gothic narratives, and allow Wilde to bring his own distinctive style of social satire to bear on the Gothic in ‘The Canterville Ghost’ (1891) and ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime’ (1891). Wolfreys argues that the ‘gothic is to be found everywhere … but never as itself, never in the same form twice’ (Wolfreys, 11). In some of his later stories he added a comic irony to the Gothic mode that he had explored in Dorian Gray, and thus lampooned the traditions he had used to such effect in the novel. In The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde wrote a tale that synthesized Gothic conventions like the magic picture, duality and physical mutability.
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