The research of The Happy Prince from the perspective of New Historicism manifests self–fashioning, subversions, criticisms of the indifferent society, and marginal culture of the Victorian Age. The self-fashioning is an interactive process between self and the outside world. The subversions consist of pragmatism, money worship, hypocrisy of the upper class and women’s attachment to men. The criticisms of the society show the luxurious life of the upper class and the desperate suffering of the poor. His cares about marginal culture includes paganism, homosexuality and aestheticism.
The Happy PrinceNew Historicismthe Victorian Ageself-fashioningsubversionsmarginal culture
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