Concise and illuminating articles explore the context within which Wilde's life and art took shape, proposing not one but many Oscar Wildes. Contributors discuss the ongoing influence and reception of Wilde and his work, from performance history to film and operatic adaptations, providing an enriched understanding of this complex individualist.
Concise and illuminating articles explore the context within which Wilde's life and art took shape, proposing not one but many Oscar Wildes. Contributors discuss the ongoing influence and reception of Wilde and his work, from performance history to film and operatic adaptations, providing an enriched understanding of this complex individualist.
Preface Chronology An appreciation: Oscar Wilde: the art of the somdomite Mark Ravenhill Part I. Placing Wilde: 1. Son and parents: Speranza and Sir William Wilde Sean Ryder 2. Wilde's Dublin Dublin's Wilde Jerusha McCormack 3. Oxford, Hellenism, male friendship Philip E. Smith, II 4. An aesthete in America Leon Litvak 5. Wilde's London Matt Cook 6. Wilde and Paris John Stokes Part II. Aesthetic and Critical Contexts: 7. Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes' Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol Joseph Bristow 8. William Morris and the house beautiful Marcus Waithe 9. Wilde and British art Richard Dorment 10. Aubrey Beardsley and Salome Susan Owens 11. Between two worlds and beyond them: John Ruskin and Walter Pater John Paul Riquelme 12. Wilde, Henry James, and the fate of aestheticism Michèle Mendelssohn 13. Style at the fin de siècle: aestheticist, decadent, symbolist Ellis Hanson 14. Poisoned by a book: the lethal aura of The Picture of Dorian Gray Peter Raby 15. Rewriting farce Kerry Powell 16. Bernard Shaw and 'Hibernian drama' Anthony Roche 17. Wilde, the fairy tales, and the oral tradition Jarlath Killeen Part III. Cultural and Historical Contexts: Ideas, Iterations, Innovations: 18. Oscar Wilde's crime and punishment: fictions, facts, and questions Merlin Holland 19. Wilde and evolution David Clifford 20. Dandyism and late-Victorian masculinity James Eli Adams 21. Oscar Wilde and the New Woman Margaret D. Stetz 22. Wilde and socialism Josephine Guy 23. Wilde and Christ Jan-Melissa Schramm 24. Aestheticism Ruth Livesey 25. Journalism Mark W. Turner 26. Censorship of the stage: writing on the edge of the allowed Helen Freshwater 27. Feminism Barbara Caine 28. Wilde and the law H. G. Cocks Part IV. Reception and Afterlives: 29. Reception and performance history of The Importance of Being Earnest Joseph Donohue 30. Reception and performance history of Wilde's 'society plays' Sos Eltis 31. A short history of Salome Steven Price 32. Wilde and stage design: some deductions, appraisals and selected instances Richard Cave 33. Wilde life: Oscar on film Oliver S. Buckton 34. Wilde and performativity Lynn Voskuil 35. Wilde and his editors Russell Jackson 36. Wilde's texts, contexts and The Portrait of Mr W. H. Ian Small Further reading.
Preface Chronology An appreciation: Oscar Wilde: the art of the somdomite Mark Ravenhill Part I. Placing Wilde: 1. Son and parents: Speranza and Sir William Wilde Sean Ryder 2. Wilde's Dublin Dublin's Wilde Jerusha McCormack 3. Oxford, Hellenism, male friendship Philip E. Smith, II 4. An aesthete in America Leon Litvak 5. Wilde's London Matt Cook 6. Wilde and Paris John Stokes Part II. Aesthetic and Critical Contexts: 7. Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes' Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol Joseph Bristow 8. William Morris and the house beautiful Marcus Waithe 9. Wilde and British art Richard Dorment 10. Aubrey Beardsley and Salome Susan Owens 11. Between two worlds and beyond them: John Ruskin and Walter Pater John Paul Riquelme 12. Wilde, Henry James, and the fate of aestheticism Michèle Mendelssohn 13. Style at the fin de siècle: aestheticist, decadent, symbolist Ellis Hanson 14. Poisoned by a book: the lethal aura of The Picture of Dorian Gray Peter Raby 15. Rewriting farce Kerry Powell 16. Bernard Shaw and 'Hibernian drama' Anthony Roche 17. Wilde, the fairy tales, and the oral tradition Jarlath Killeen Part III. Cultural and Historical Contexts: Ideas, Iterations, Innovations: 18. Oscar Wilde's crime and punishment: fictions, facts, and questions Merlin Holland 19. Wilde and evolution David Clifford 20. Dandyism and late-Victorian masculinity James Eli Adams 21. Oscar Wilde and the New Woman Margaret D. Stetz 22. Wilde and socialism Josephine Guy 23. Wilde and Christ Jan-Melissa Schramm 24. Aestheticism Ruth Livesey 25. Journalism Mark W. Turner 26. Censorship of the stage: writing on the edge of the allowed Helen Freshwater 27. Feminism Barbara Caine 28. Wilde and the law H. G. Cocks Part IV. Reception and Afterlives: 29. Reception and performance history of The Importance of Being Earnest Joseph Donohue 30. Reception and performance history of Wilde's 'society plays' Sos Eltis 31. A short history of Salome Steven Price 32. Wilde and stage design: some deductions, appraisals and selected instances Richard Cave 33. Wilde life: Oscar on film Oliver S. Buckton 34. Wilde and performativity Lynn Voskuil 35. Wilde and his editors Russell Jackson 36. Wilde's texts, contexts and The Portrait of Mr W. H. Ian Small Further reading.
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