This volume offers fresh approaches to well-known works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray while paying serious attention to his lesser known writings and activities, including his earliest attempts at emulating the English Romantics, his editing of Woman's World, and his fascination with anarchism.
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Table of contents
- 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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