UID:
almahu_9947414304302882
Format:
1 online resource (xxxiv, 402 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139060103 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Literature in context
Content:
Oscar Wilde was a courageous individualist whose path-breaking life and work were shaped in the crucible of his time and place, deeply marked by the controversies of his era. This collection of concise and illuminating articles reveals the complex relationship between Wilde's work and ideas and contemporary contexts including Victorian feminism, aestheticism and socialism. Chapters investigate how Wilde's writing was both a resistance to and quotation of Victorian master narratives and genre codes. From performance history to film and operatic adaptations, the ongoing influence and reception of Wilde's story and work is explored, proposing not one but many Oscar Wildes. To approach the meaning of Wilde as an artist and historical figure, the book emphasises not only his ability to imagine new worlds, but also his bond to the turbulent cultural and historical landscape around him - the context within which his life and art took shape.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107016132
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139060103
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