Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture / / Michèle Mendelssohn.
Challenges critical assumptions about the way Aestheticism responded to anxieties about nationality, sexuality, identity, influence, originality and moralityThis book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James’s and Oscar Wilde’s relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures : ESTLI
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1 ‘I have asked Henry James not to bring his friend Oscar Wilde’: Daisy Miller, Washington Square and the Politics of Transatlantic Aestheticism
- Chapter 2 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies and of remaking aestheticism
- Chapter 3 The school of the future as well as the present: Wilde’s Impressions of James in Intentions and The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Chapter 4 ‘Wild thoughts and desire! Things I can’t tell you – words I can’t speak!’: The Drama of Identity in The Importance of Being Earnest and Guy Domville
- Chapter 5 Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde Trials and Interior Decoration
- Chapter 6 ‘A nest of almost infant blackmailers’: The End of Innocence in ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and De Profundis
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX