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xxxiv, 402 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
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Literature in context
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-391) and index. |
| Contents |
An appreciation: Oscar Wilde: the art of the somdomite / Mark Ravenhill -- Part I. Placing Wilde. -- Son and parents: Speranza and Sir William Wilde / Sean Ryder -- Wilde's Dublin; Dublin's Wilde / Jerusha McCormack -- Oxford, Hellenism, male friendship / Philip E. Smith II -- An aesthete in America / Leon Litvack -- Wilde's London / Matt Cook -- Wilde and Paris / John Stokes -- Part II. Aesthetic and Critical Contexts. -- Oscar Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes's Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol / Joseph Bristow -- William Morris and the House Beautiful / Marcus Waithe -- Wilde and British art / Richard Dorment -- Aubrey Beardsley and Salome / Susan Owens -- Between two worlds and beyond them: John Ruskin and Walter Pater / John Paul Riquelme -- Oscar Wilde, Henry James and the fate of aestheticism / Michèle Mendelssohn -- Style at the fin de siècle: aestheticist, decadent, symbolist / Ellis Hanson -- Poisoned by a book: the lethal aura of The Picture of Dorian Gray / Peter Raby -- Rewriting farce / Kerry Powell -- Bernard Shaw and 'Hibernian drama' / Anthony Roche -- Wilde, the fairy tales and the oral tradition / Jarlath Killeen -- Part III. Cultural and Historical Contexts: Ideas, Iterations, Innovations. -- Oscar Wilde's crime and punishment: fictions, facts and questions / Merlin Holland -- Wilde and evolution / David Clifford -- Dandyism and late Victorian masculinity / James Eli Adams -- Oscar Wilde and the New Woman / Margaret D. Stetz -- Oscar Wilde and socialism / Josephine M. Guy -- Wilde and Christ / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Aestheticism / Ruth Livesey -- Journalism / Mark W. Turner -- The censorship of the stage: writing on the edge of the allowed / Helen Freshwater -- Feminism / Barbara Caine -- Wilde and the law / Harry Cocks -- Part IV. Reception and Afterlives. -- Reception and performance history of The Importance of Being Earnest / Joseph Donohue -- Reception and performance history of Wilde's society plays / Sos Eltis -- A short history of Salome / Steven Price -- Wilde and stage design: some deductions, appraisals and selected instances / Richard Cave -- Wilde life: Oscar on film / Oliver S. Buckton -- Wilde and performativity / Lynn Voskuil -- Wilde and his editors / Russell Jackson -- Wilde's texts, contexts and 'The Portrait of Mr. W.H.' / Ian Small. |
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. (OCoLC)fst00033910
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Powell, Kerry, editor.
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Raby, Peter, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781107016132 (Hardback) |
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1107016134 (Hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9781107016132 |
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