Oscar Wilde in Vienna : : pleasing and teasing the audience / / Sandra Mayer.
Oscar Wilde in Vienna is the first book-length study in English of the reception of Oscar Wilde’s works in the German-speaking world. Charting the plays’ history on Viennese stages between 1903 and 2013, it casts a spotlight on the international reputation of one of the most popular English-language...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 386 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Oscar Wilde and the Art of Creating a Great Sensation
- An Artefact of Commodified Culture: Trading Wilde in the Literary Marketplace
- Curtain Up: Wilde Enters the Viennese Stage
- Forging the Construct: Wilde the Playwright in Early-Twentieth-Century Vienna
- Consolidating the Construct: The Canonisation of Wildean Drama on Viennese Stages before 1938
- Modifying vs Preserving the Construct: The Viennese Wilde Revival after 1945
- Remodelling the Construct: Wildean Drama and the Politics of Disambiguation at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
- Conclusion: Literary Reputation(s) and the Promise of Canonical Survival, or In Pursuit of the ‘Real’ Wilde.