Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-391) and index.
• 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 — Wi

Subjects:

• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 — Criticism and interpretation.
• English literature — 19th century — History and criticism.
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. gnd
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. fast (OCoLC)fst00033910
• 1800 – 1899 fast
• Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635

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