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Oscar Wilde and modern culture : the making of a legend /

Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer's reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas. Always renowned-if not notorious-for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bristow, Joseph (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2008.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Oscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, and late-Victorian table-talk / Lucy McDiarmid
  • Sexuality in the age of technological reproducibility: Oscar Wilde, photography, and identity / Daniel A. Novak
  • Salomé as bombshell, or, How Oscar Wilde became an anarchist / Erin Williams Hyman
  • Oscar Wilde and the politics of posthumous sainthood: Hofmannsthal, Mirbeau, Proust / Richard A. Kaye
  • The trouble with Oskar: Wilde's legacy for the early homosexual rights movement in Germany / Yvonne Ivory
  • Staking Salomé: the literary forefathers and choreographic daughters of Oscar Wilde's "Hysterical and perverted creature" / Julie Townsend
  • "Surely you are not claiming to be more homosexual than I?" Claude Cahun and Oscar Wilde / Lizzie Thynne
  • Oscar Wilde's An ideal husband and W. Somerset Maugham's The constant wife: a dialogue / Laurel Brake
  • Transcripts and truth: writing the trials of Oscar Wilde / Leslie J. Moran
  • The artist as protagonist: Wilde on stage / Francesca Coppa
  • Wilde lives: Derek Jarman and the queer eighties / Matt Cook
  • Oscar goes to Hollywood: Wilde, sexuality, and the gaze of contemporary cinema / Oliver S. Buckton.