| Description |
xi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
A collection of academic papers first presented at a conference at Hofstra University, April 27-29, 2000. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Oscar Wilde and the importance of not being earnest / Karl Beckson -- Blue china and blue moods: Oscar fashioning himself at Oxford / Christopher Armitage -- Oscar Wilde, Lillie Langtry, and the fashioning of persona / Heather Marcovitch -- Oscar Wilde in America, 1882: aestheticism, women, and modernism / Mary W. Blanchard -- Clubs, cliques, and coteries: the interlinking artistic circles of Wilde's London / Jane S. Gabin -- "Arbiter of the elegancies?" Oscar Wilde as editor / Loretta Clayton -- Fairy tales and Oscar Wilde's public charms / Ann Shillinglaw -- The dream vision form of Oscar Wilde's "The young king" / William Racicot -- Oscar Wilde and Victorian socialism / Aaron Noland -- Economics and performance: Wilde's aesthetics of self-invention / Shelton Waldrep -- "The peculiar quality of my genius": degeneration, decadence, and Doran Gray in 1890-91 / Nicholas Ruddick -- Double-consciousness and The picture of Dorian Gray / Moira Di Mauro-Jackson -- Winckelmann and the anti-essentialist thrust in Dorian Gray / Ann Herndon Marshall -- "Yet each man kills the thing he loves": murder and sexual transgression in The importance of being Earnest, "Lord Arthur Savile's crime," and Salome / Helena Gurfinkel -- Oscar Wilde, Richard Wagner, Sigmund Freud, and Richard Strauss / John Louis DiGaetani -- Wilde's Salome: turning "The monstrous beast" into a tragic hero / Chris Snodgrass -- Reconsidering Alla Nazimova's film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Salome / Joan Navarre -- Wilde's monstrosity / Frank Smigiel -- Renaming Algernon / Edmund Miller -- "The position you pose in": the mystery of Wilde's trials / Shelley I. Salamensky -- Welcoming the outcast back into society: Oscar Wilde and Ada Leverson's Ur moment / James Scannell -- De profundis: the afterlife of a manuscript / Merlin Holland. |
| Subject |
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Congresses.
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. |
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Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography -- Congresses.
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Authors, Irish. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Keane, Robert N.
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| ISBN |
0404644627 acid-free paper |
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9780404644628 acid-free paper |
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