Wilde Writings : : Contextual Conditions / / Joseph Bristow.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Bristow, Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Introduction /; Part I. Wilde Writings --; 1. Wilde's World: Oscar Wilde and Theatrical Journalism in the 1880s /; 2. "The Soul of Man under Socialism": A (Con)Textual History /; Love-Letter, Spiritual Autobiography, or Prison Writing? 3. Identity and Value in De Profundis /; 4. Wilde's Exquisite Pain /; Part II. Wilde Stages --; 5. Wilde Man: Masculinity, Feminism, and A Woman of No Importance /; 6. Wilde, and How to Be Modern: or, Bags of Red Gold /; 7. Master Wood's Profession: Wilde and the Subculture of Homosexual Blackmail in the Victorian Theatre /; Part III. Wilde Contexts --; 8. Wilde's The Woman's World and the Culture of Aesthetic Philanthropy /; 9. The Origins of the Aesthetic Novel: Ouida, Wilde, and the Popular Romance /; 10. Oscar Wilde, New Women, and the Rhetoric of Effeminacy /; 11. Oscar Wilde and Jesus Christ /; Part IV. Wilde Legacies --; 12. Oscar Wilde's Legacies to Clarion and New Age Socialist Aestheticism /; 13. Salome in China: The Aesthetic Art of Dying /; Notes on the Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442683501; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442683501
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joseph Bristow.

Opening with an introduction by Joseph Bristow and featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramatist, novelist, and poet, this provocative and ground-breaking volume ushers the field of Oscar Wilde studies into the twenty-first century. The contributors focus on three neglected areas of Wilde criticism ? textual editing, the production and dissemination of Wilde's dramas, and the situating of Wilde's writings in cultural, political and social contexts ? and cast fresh light on topics that include Wilde's early dramatic criticism, his engagement with socialist thought, his groundbreaking editorship of The Woman's World, and the relation of his plays to late-Victorian feminism and homosexual blackmail.WildeWritings brings together research by established and emergent scholars, some of whom draw on unpublished archival material, and all of whom have something fresh to say about Wilde. The collection provides new interventions into urgent critical debates about Wilde and effeminacy, masochism, and Christian theology, and draws attention to significant problems in the textual edition of Wilde's divergent canon of writing, his debt to the 'aesthetic' fiction of the popular novelist Ouida, and the transmission of his drama in twentieth-century China.Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.