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 / Kerry Powell and Peter Raby.

Summary

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.

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Description:1 online resource : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781139060103, 1139060104, 9781107731776, 1107731771, 9781107728264, 1107728266, 1107016134, 9781107016132
oclc:ocn869560678
LC Classification:PR5824
Dewey Decimal:828/.809

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 traditi…

Subjects

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