Oscar Wilde and modern culture : the making of a legend / edited by Joseph Bristow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bristow, Joseph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Homosexuality and literature.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Influence.

Wilde, Oscar.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 his fashionable persona, Wilde courted celebrity at an early age. Later, he came to prominence as one of the most talented essayists and fiction writers of his time. In the years leading up to his two-year imprisonment, Wilde stood among the foremost dramatists in London. But after

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821443033

0821443038

OCLC:

742512877