Oscar Wilde in context

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Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.

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Full title :Oscar Wilde in context / edited by Kerry Powell and Peter Raby.

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Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

Description:xxxiv, 402 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 24 cm.

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ISBN:9781107016132, 1107016134, 9781139060103, 1139060104
oclc:ocn842337399
LC Classification:PR5824
Dewey Decimal:828/.809

An appreciation: Oscar Wilde: the art of the somdomite / Mark Ravenhill -- Part I. Placing Wilde. -- Son and parents: Speranza and Sir William Wilde / Sean Ryder -- Wilde's Dublin; Dublin's Wilde / Jerusha McCormack -- Oxford, Hellenism, male friendship / Philip E. Smith II -- An aesthete in America / Leon Litvack -- Wilde's London / Matt Cook -- Wilde and Paris / John Stokes -- Part II. Aesthetic and Critical Contexts. -- Oscar Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes's Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol / Joseph Bristow -- William Morris and the House Beautiful / Marcus Waithe -- Wilde and British art / Richard Dorment -- Aubrey Beardsley and Salome / Susan Owens -- Between two worlds and beyond them: John Ruskin and Walter Pater / John Paul Riquelme -- Oscar Wilde, Henry James and the fate of aestheticism / Michèle Mendelssohn -- Style at the fin de siècle: aestheticist, decadent, symbolist / Ellis Hanson -- Poisoned by a book: the lethal aura of The Picture of Dorian Gray / Peter Raby -- Rewriting farce / Kerry Powell -- Bernard Shaw and 'Hibernian drama' / Anthony Roche -- Wilde, the fairy tales and the oral tradition / Jarlath Killeen -- Part III. Cultural and Historic…