Wilde Discoveries : Traditions, Histories, Archives.

Wilde Discoveries : Traditions, Histories, Archives.

This volume offers fresh approaches to well-known works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray while paying serious attention to his lesser known writings and activities, including his earliest attempts at emulating the English Romantics, his editing of Woman's World, and his fascination with anarc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bristow, Joseph
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:UCLA Clark Memorial Library.
Subjects:
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Criticism and interpretation.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Romanticism, Nihilism, and Revivalism: Oscar Wilde, 1874-1882
  • 1 Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Romantic
  • 2 Reconsidering Wilde's Vera
  • or, The Nihilists
  • 3 Misrecognising Wilde: Media and Performance on the American Tour of 1882
  • Part Two: Journalism: Oscar Wilde and The Woman's World, 1887-1889
  • 4 The Aesthetic Character of Oscar Wilde's The Woman's World
  • 5 Oscar Wilde, Aesthetic Dress, and the Modern Woman: Or Why Sargent's Portrait of Ellen Terry Appeared in The Woman's World
  • Part Three: Faith, Belief, and Fiction: Oscar Wilde, 1889-1891
  • 6 Sexual Gnosticism: The Procreative Code of "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."
  • 7 Reading and Re-reading: Wilde, Newman, and the Fiction of Belief
  • 8 Oscar Wilde's Poetic Injustice in The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Part Four: Translation, Performance, and Fashion: Oscar Wilde and the Stage
  • 9 Wilde's French
  • 10 Fashioning the Modern Woman's Sexual Turn from Salomé to Ulysses, 1892-1922
  • 11 Oscar Wilde's Anadoodlegram: A Genetic, Performative Reading of An Ideal Husband
  • 12 Transgressive Props
  • or Oscar Wilde's E(a)rnest Signifier
  • Part Five: Modern Quests for Oscar Wilde
  • 13 Christopher Millard's Mysterious Book: Oscar Wilde, Baron Corvo, and the Unwritten Quest
  • Index.

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