Oscar Wilde in context /
Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Literature in Context.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Notes; Chronology; An appreciation; Part I Placing Wilde; Chapter 1 Son and parents: Speranza and Sir William Wilde; Notes; Chapter 2 Wilde's Dublin; Dublin's Wilde; Notes; Chapter 3 Oxford, Hellenism, male friendship; Notes; Chapter 4 An aesthete in America; Notes; Chapter 5 Wilde's London; Notes; Chapter 6 Wilde and Paris; Notes; Part II Aesthetic and critical contexts; Chapter 7 Oscar Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes's Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Notes.
- Chapter 8 William Morris and the House BeautifulNotes; Chapter 9 Wilde and British art; Notes; Chapter 10 Aubrey Beardsley and Salome; Notes; Chapter 11 Between two worlds and beyond them: John Ruskin and Walter Pater; Notes; Chapter 12 Oscar Wilde, Henry James and the fate of aestheticism; Notes; Chapter 13 Style at the fin de siècle: aestheticist, decadent, symbolist; Notes; Chapter 14 Poisoned by a book: the lethal aura of The Picture of Dorian Gray; Notes; Chapter 15 Rewriting farce; Notes; Chapter 16 Bernard Shaw and 'Hibernian drama'; Notes.
- Chapter 17 Wilde, the fairy tales and the oral traditionNotes; Part III Cultural and historical contexts: ideas, iterations, innovations; Chapter 18 Oscar Wilde's crime and punishment: fictions, facts and questions; Notes; Chapter 19 Wilde and evolution; Notes; Chapter 20 Dandyism and late Victorian masculinity; Notes; Chapter 21 Oscar Wilde and the New Woman; Notes; Chapter 22 Oscar Wilde and socialism; Notes; Chapter 23 Wilde and Christ; Wilde, Christ and recognition; Wilde, Christ and redistribution; De Profundis and the Christian meaning of pain; Notes; Chapter 24 Aestheticism; Notes.
- Chapter 25 JournalismNotes; Chapter 26 The censorship of the stage: writing on the edge of the allowed; Notes; Chapter 27 Feminism; Notes; Chapter 28 Wilde and the law; Notes; Part IV Reception and afterlives; Chapter 29 Reception and performance history of The Importance of Being Earnest; Notes; Chapter 30 Reception and performance history of Wilde's society plays; Notes; Chapter 31 A short history of Salome; Notes; Chapter 32 Wilde and stage design: some deductions, appraisals and selected instances; Notes; Chapter 33 Wilde life: Oscar on film; Notes; Chapter 34 Wilde and performativity.
- NotesChapter 35 Wilde and his editors; Notes; Chapter 36 Wilde's texts, contexts and 'The Portrait of Mr W.H.'; Notes; Further reading; Wilde's works; Bibliographical works; Biographical works; Criticism and context; Index.
