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Wilde Discoveries : : Traditions, Histories, Archives / / ed. by Joseph Bristow.

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MitwirkendeR:
Ablow, Rachel,
Bristow, Joseph,
Campbell, James,
Castle, Gregory,
Clayton, Loretta,
Cohen, William A.,
Crowell, Ellen,
Cucullu, Lois,
Foss, Chris,
Hultgren, Neil,
Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn,
Riquelme, John Paul,
Youngkin, Molly,
HerausgeberIn:
Bristow, Joseph,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2013
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Romanticism, Nihilism, and Revivalism: Oscar Wilde, 1874-1882
  • Chapter one. Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Romantic
  • Chapter two. Reconsidering Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists
  • Chapter three. Misrecognising Wilde: Media and Performance on the American Tour of 1882
  • Part Two. Journalism: Oscar Wilde and The Woman's World , 1887-1889
  • Chapter four. The Aesthetic Character of Oscar Wilde's The Woman's World
  • Chapter five. Oscar Wilde, Aesthetic Dress, and the Modern Woman: Or Why Sargent's Portrait of Ellen Terry Appeared in The Woman's World
  • Part Three. Faith, Belief, and Fiction: Oscar Wilde, 1889-1891
  • Chapter six. Sexual Gnosticism: The Procreative Code of "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."
  • Chapter seven. Reading and Re-reading: Wilde, Newman, and the Fiction of Belief
  • Chapter eight. Oscar Wilde's Poetic Injustice in The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Part Four. Translation, Performance, and Fashion: Oscar Wilde and the Stage
  • Chapter nine. Wilde's French
  • Chapter ten. Fashioning the Modern Woman's Sexual Turn from Salomé to Ulysses , 1892-1922
  • Chapter eleven. Oscar Wilde's Anadoodlegram: A Genetic, Performative Reading of An Ideal Husband
  • Chapter tweleve. Transgressive Props; or Oscar Wilde's E(a)rnest Signifier
  • Part Five. Modern Quests for Oscar Wilde
  • Chapter thirteen. Christopher Millard's Mysterious Book: Oscar Wilde, Baron Corvo, and the Unwritten Quest
  • Index

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