The artistic merits of the individual works of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) have often been slighted in order to stress their significance as literary monuments to decadence. Criticism has been overly concerned with the light that it might shed upon the origins of Wilde’ s aesthetical views and his biographical approach to interpretation. However, the more significant task of asserting the religious nature and qualities of Wilde’s literary works has been overlooked as well. A double and parallel weakness in a substantial number of the critical accounts of Wilde’ s life and literary achievements has been the tendency to see both Wilde and his works as historical and literary anomalies, rather than products of the shaping influences of decadent and fin-de-siecle peculiarities. Wilde was― in accordance with and based on my studies― a much greater personality than being just a mere writer. The aim of this paper is to analyze aspects of Christianity in Oscar Wilde, especially through his fairy-tales. I have placed primary emphasis on the analytical assessment of his idea of Christianity and his literary achievements.
梅津 et al. (Sun,) studied this question.