Nabokov blurs boundaries between aestheticism and morality to inoculate readers against Humbert Humbert’s paedophilia and solipsism, whereas Wilde uses aestheticism to elucidate Dorian Gray’s vanity.
The intersection of morality and aestheticism…
Nabokov blurs boundaries between aestheticism and morality to inoculate readers against Humbert Humbert’s paedophilia and solipsism, whereas Wilde uses aestheticism to elucidate Dorian Gray’s vanity.