Palgrave advances in Oscar Wilde studies / edited by Frederick S. Roden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roden, Frederick S., 1970-

Series:

Palgrave advances

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Wilde, Oscar.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Chronology.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

Authors, Irish--Biography--History and criticism.

Authors, Irish.

Authors, Irish--Biography.

Chronology.

Criticism and interpretation.

History.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Oscar Wilde studies

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

Palgrave Advances offers a series of innovative books which orientate graduate and upper-level students within the current state of a field of study. Providing introductions to and overviews of the key debates, each text brings together leading international scholars who survey, question and push the boundaries of the discipline. The Palgrave Advances in Literature take a meta-critical approach, reflecting on how developments in literary criticism and theory have altered some of our fundamental assumptions about reading and teaching texts. Foregrounding new research, these books seek to map the future direction of the field.

Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies offers new and exciting research on an author of enduring interest. Including ten chapters by major voices in current scholarship on the author, this volume provides the state of the field as well as original interpretations in a manner that is accessible to both the specialist and novice reader. Chapters interrogate questions of Wilde, Ireland and Empire, the relationship between gay studies and queer theory, and the place of feminist approaches. It is interdisciplinary, representing performance studies and literary studies, and also encompasses philosophical and religious perspectives on Wilde. This book provides a useful chronology, history of criticism and bibliography, and each chapter guides the reader towards an understanding of a specific methodology. Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies will be of interest to the advanced undergraduate and postgraduate student, the lecturer and the scholar - whoever craves a knowledge of the latest waves in Wilde criticism.

Contents:

2 Wilde the writer / Anne Margaret Daniel 36

3 Performance theory and performativity / Francesca Coppa 72

4 Aestheticism and aesthetic theory / Allison Pease 96

5 Oscar wilde, commodity, culture / Dennis Denisoff 119

6 Philosophical approaches to interpretation of oscar wilde / Philip Smith 143

7 Religion / Patrick R.O'Malley 167

8 Gay studies / queer theory and oscar wilde / Richard A. Kaye 189

9 Oscar wilde and feminist criticism / Margaret Diane Stetz 224

10 Oscar wilde: nation and empire / Noreen Doody 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index.

ISBN:

1403921474

1403921482

OCLC:

54865515