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Title Oscar Wilde and modern culture [electronic resource] : the making of a legend / edited by Joseph Bristow.

Imprint Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2008.

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Description xlii, 355 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Oscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, and late-Victorian table-talk / Lucy McDiarmid -- Sexuality in the age of technological reproducibility: Oscar Wilde, photography, and identity / Daniel A. Novak -- Salome as bombshell, or, How Oscar Wilde became an anarchist / Erin Williams Hyman -- Oscar Wilde and the politics of posthumous sainthood: Hofmannsthal, Mirbeau, Proust / Richard A. Kaye -- The trouble with Oskar: Wilde's legacy for the early homosexual rights movement in Germany / Yvonne Ivory -- Staking Salome: the literary forefathers and choreographic daughters of Oscar Wilde's "Hysterical and perverted creature" / Julie Townsend -- "Surely you are not claiming to be more homosexual than I?" Claude Cahun and Oscar Wilde / Lizzie Thynne -- Oscar Wilde's An ideal husband and W. Somerset Maugham's The constant wife: a dialogue / Laurel Brake -- Transcripts and truth: writing the trials of Oscar Wilde / Leslie J. Moran -- The artist as protagonist: Wilde on stage / Francesca Coppa -- Wilde lives: Derek Jarman and the queer eighties / Matt Cook -- Oscar goes to Hollywood: Wilde, sexuality, and the gaze of contemporary cinema / Oliver S. Buckton.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Influence.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bristow, Joseph.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780821418376 (alk. paper)
0821418378 (alk. paper)
9780821418383 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0821418386 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780821443033 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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