Oscar Wilde and classical antiquity / Kathleen Riley, Alastair J.L. Blanshard, and Iarla Manny.

Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. He studied Classics at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford, winning academic prizes and distinctions at both institutions. His undergraduate notebooks as well as his essays and articles on ancient topics reveal...

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Other Authors: Riley, Kathleen, 1974- (Editor), Blanshard, Alastair (Editor), Manny, Iarla (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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520 8 |a Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. He studied Classics at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford, winning academic prizes and distinctions at both institutions. His undergraduate notebooks as well as his essays and articles on ancient topics reveal a mind engrossed in problems in classical scholarship and fascinated by the relationship between ancient and modern thought. His first publications were English translations of classical texts. Even after he had 'left Parnassus for Piccadilly', antiquity continued to provide Wilde with a critical vocabulary in which he could express himself and his aestheticism, an intellectual framework for understanding the world around him, and a compelling set of narratives to fire his artist's imagination. Wilde's debt to Greece and Rome is evident throughout his writings, from the sparkling wit of Society plays like The Importance of Being Earnest to the extraordinary meditation on suffering that is De Profundis. This book unites scholars in Classics and ancient history, English, theatre and performance studies, and the history of ideas to investigate the varied and profound impact that Graeco-Roman antiquity had on Wilde's life and work. This wide-ranging collection covers all the major genres of Wilde's literary output; it includes new perspectives on his most celebrated and canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material. It also encompasses the main aspects of the ancient world that Wilde engaged with, its literature, history, and philosophy. 
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505 0 |a Foreword / Edward Petherbridge ; Introduction: Taking Parnassus to Piccadilly / Kathleen Riley ; I Wilde{u2019}s Classical Education. 1 Mahaffy and Wilde: A Study in Provocation / Alastair J. L. Blanshard ; 2 How Wilde Read John Addington Symonds{u2019}s Studies of the Greek Poets / Gideon Nisbet ; 3 {u2018}Very fine & Semitic{u2019}; Wilde's Herodotus / Iain Ross ; 4 Wilde{u2019}s Abstractions: Notes on Literae Humaniores / Joseph Bristow ; II Wilde as Dramatist. 5 Beyond Sculpture: Wilde's Responses to Greek Theatre in the 1880s / John Stokes ; 6 Wilde and the Emergence of Literary Drama, 1880{u2013}1895 / Clare L. E. Foster ; 7 {u2018}Tragedy in the disguise of mirth{u2019}: Robert Browning, George Eliot, and Wilde / Isobel Hurst ; 8 Death by Unrequited Eros: Salome, Hippolytus, and WIlde's Inversion of Tragedy / Kostas Boyiopoulos ; III Wilde as Philosopher and Cultural Critic. 9 Imagining Utopia: Oxford Hellenism and the Aesthetic Alternative / Leanne Grech ; 10 {u2018}All the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy{u2019}: Wilde's 'Epistola' and the Euripidean Christ / Kathleen Riley ; 11 Burning with a {u2018}hard, gem-like flame{u2019}: Heraclitus and Hedonism in Wilde's Writing / Kate Hext ; 12 Cosmopolitan Classicism: Wilde between Greece and France / Stefano Evangelista ; IV Wilde as Novelist: The Picture of Dorian Gray. 13 Wilde{u2019}s New Republic: Platonic Questions in Dorian Gray / Marylu Hill ; 14 From Eros to Romosexuality: Love and Sex in Dorian Gray / Nikolai Endres / 15 Oscar as (Ovid as) Orpheus: Mysogyny and Pederasty in Dorian Gray and the Metamorphoses / Iarla Manny ; V Wilde and Rome. 16 Wilde and Roman History / Philip E. Smith II ; 17 The Criminal Emperors of Ancient Rome and Wilde{u2019}s {u2018}true historical sense{u2019} / Shushma Malik ; 18 {u2018}I knew I had a brother!{u2019}: Fraternity and Identity in Platus' Menaechmi and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest / Serena S. Witzke. 
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