Wilde discoveries : traditions, histories, archives / edited by Joseph Bristow.
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Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,
Part V. Christopher Millard's Mysterious Book: Oscar Wilde, Baron Corvo, and the Unwritten Quest / Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Romantic / Ellen Crowell. Reconsidering Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists / Elizabeth Carolyn Miller -- Misrecognizing Wilde: Media and Performance on the American Tour of 1882 / Gregory Castle -- Part II. Journalism: Oscar Wilde and The Woman's World, 1887-1889. The Aesthetic Character of Oscar Wilde's The Woman's World / Molly Youngkin -- Oscar Wilde, Aesthetic Dress, and the Modern Woman: Or Why Sargent's Portrait of Ellen Terry Appeared in The Woman's World / Loretta Clayton -- Part III. Faith, Belief, and Fiction: Oscar Wilde, 1889-1891. Sexual Gnosticism: The Procreative Code of "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." / James Campbell -- Reading and Re-reading: Wilde, Newman, and the Fiction of Belief / Rachel Ablow -- Oscar Wilde's Poetic Injustice in The Picture of Dorian Gray / Neil Hultgren -- Part IV. Translation, Performance, and Fashion: Oscar Wilde and the Stage. Wilde's French / William A. Cohen -- Fashioning the Modern Woman's Sexual Turn from SalomeĢ to Ulysses, 1892-1922 / Lois Cucullu -- Oscar Wilde's Anadoodlegram: A Genetic, Performative Reading of An Ideal Husband / John Paul Riquelme -- Transgressive Props; or Oscar Wilde's E(a)rnest Signifier / Felicia J. Ruff -- Part V. Modern Quests for Oscar Wilde. Christopher Millard's Mysterious Book: Oscar Wilde, Baron Corvo, and the Unwritten Quest / Ellen Crowell.
Summary:
"The most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde's remarkable career, the "Oscar Wilde and His Circle" archive at the University of California, Los Angeles houses the world's largest collection of materials relating to the life and work of the gifted Irish writer. Wilde Discoveries brings together thirteen studies based on research done in this archive that span the course of Wilde's work and shed light on previously neglected aspects of his lively and varied professional and personal life. 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. A detailed introduction by the volume editor ties the essays together and illustrates the distinctive evolution of research on this great writer's extraordinary career."--Dust jacket.
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