Oscar Wilde in Context

Oscar Wilde in Context

by Raby, Peter

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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

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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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.

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  • Description:1 online resource

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  • ISBN:9781107016132, 1107016134, 9781139060103, 1139060104, 9781107720435, 1107720435, 9781107723641, 1107723647, 9781107728264, 1107728266, 9781107730021, 1107730023, 9781107731776, 1107731771
  • oclc:on1229594424
  • LC Classification:PR
  • Dewey Decimal:828/.809

Table of Contents

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Notes; Chronology; An appreciation; Part I Placing Wilde; Chapter 1 Son and parents: Speranza and Sir William Wilde; Notes; Chapter 2 Wilde's Dublin; Dublin's Wilde; Notes; Chapter 3 Oxford, Hellenism, male friendship; Notes; Chapter 4 An aesthete in America; Notes; Chapter 5 Wilde's London; Notes; Chapter 6 Wilde and Paris; Notes; Part II Aesthetic and critical contexts; Chapter 7 Oscar Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes's Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Notes

Chapter 8 William Morris and the House BeautifulNotes; Chapter 9 Wilde and British art; Notes; Chapter 10 Aubrey Beardsley and Salome; Notes; Chapter 11 Between two worlds and beyond them: John Ruskin and Walter Pater; Notes; Chapter 12 Oscar Wilde, Henry James and the fate of aestheticism; Notes; Chapter 13 Style at the fin de siècle: aestheticist, decadent, symbolist; Notes; Chapter 14 Poisoned by a book: the lethal aura of The Picture of Dorian Gray; Notes; Chapter 15 Rewriting farce; Notes; Chapter 16 Bernard Shaw and 'Hibernian drama'; Notes

Chapter 17 Wilde, the fairy tales and the oral tradition…

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc English Literature English literature -- History and criti… Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et cri… Wilde, Oscar

Writers

Raby, Peter Powell, Kerry

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