Oscar Wilde’s (1854–1900) strange spatial dislocation is summed up succinctly by a 1891 letter to the French writer, Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896): “Français de sympathie, je suis Irlandais de race, et les Anglais m’ont condamné à parler le langage de Shakespeare” [French by sympathy, I am Irish by birth, and by the English I am condemned to speak the language of Shakespeare] (Wilde 2000a: 505) (This entry relies and expands upon research first published in Giles Whiteley, The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century Literature, 1843–1907 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). I thank Edinburgh University Press for permission to reuse material here.). Born in Dublin, Wilde would die living in Paris, following his self-imposed exile in the wake of his infamous 1895 trial and incarceration for acts of “gross indecency.” Both cities were formative influences on Wilde, who would go on to become the leading spokesman for aestheticism and decadence in English....