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De Profundis (Voice (Passive, Formal register, Hyperbolic, Active (later…
De Profundis
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Audience
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Contemporary writers, academics, commentators and journalists
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Students of social history/gender and gay studies and theories (e.g. 'queer' theory and responses to literature, including drama and poetry)
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Genre
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Use of past tense reflecting a retrospective and subjective, personal account
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Context
Wilde
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Attempted to press charges against Lord Alfred Douglas' father but it backfired and lead to his own imprisonment.
Status in British literary canon as a great writer across drama, poetry, novels and as a social commentator- incarceration has been reported and commented upon as well as used for a variety of agendas since
Homosexuality
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Homosexuality was classified as a crime in England at the time, and Wilde was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor.