University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 5-31-2007 Beauty, Objectification, and Transcendence: Modernist Aesthetics in The icP ture of Dorian Gray and Pale Fire Deborah S. McLeod University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons, and the English Language and Literature Commons Scholar Commons Citation McLeod, Deborah S., "Beauty, Objectification, and Transcendence: Modernist Aesthetics in The icturP e of Dorian Gray and Pale Fire" (2007). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3774 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Beauty, Objectification, and Transcendence: Modernist Aesthetics in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Pale Fire by Deborah S. McLeod A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of English College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Major Professor: Susan Mooney, Ph.D. Regina Hewitt, Ph.D. Laura Runge-Gordon, Ph.D. Date of Approval: May 31, 2007 Keywords: aestheticism, Decadence, Symbolism, gaze, Wilde, Nabokov © Copyright 2007, Deborah S. McLeod Acknowledgements This thesis would not have been possible without the support of a number of people. I would like to thank my committee members, as well as the other faculty and staff of the university’s English Department, for their advice and guidance.