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Oscar Wilde and the cultures of childhood / Joseph Bristow, editor.
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- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Influence.
- Wilde, Oscar.
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
- Children in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Editor and Contributors""; ""List of Figures""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction: Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood ""; ""The Chapters""; ""Chapter 2 aÃÂ#x80;#x9C;Play[ing] Narcissus to a PhotographaÃÂ#x80;#x9D;: Oscar Wilde and the Image of the Child ""; ""Chapter 3 The Good Aesthetic Child and Deferred Aesthetic Education ""; ""Theories of Aesthetic Osmosis""; ""Varieties of Aesthetic Experience""; ""The Natural Aesthetic Child""; ""Son of Aestheticism""
- ""Chapter 4 WildeaÃÂ#x80;#x99;s Legacy: Fairy Tales, Laurence Housman, and the Expression of aÃÂ#x80;#x9C;Beautiful Untrue ThingsaÃÂ#x80;#x9D; """"The House Beautiful and the Book Beautiful""; ""Entering the House of Joy""; ""A House of Pomegranates Revisited""; ""Chapter 5 Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, and the Politics of Dress and Decoration in the Fin-de-SiAÃÂcÃÂle Fairy Tale ""; ""aÃÂ#x80;#x9C;The Boy Who Looked like a GirlaÃÂ#x80;#x9D;: Gender Performance, from the Victorian Nursery to Fairyland""; ""Divesting the Happy Prince: Empire, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of Isolation""
- ""Chapter 6 The Aesthetics of Altruism in Oscar WildeaÃÂ#x80;#x99;s Fairy Tales """"Chapter 7 Oscar WildeaÃÂ#x80;#x99;s Fairy Tales and the Evolution of Lying ""; ""Art and Lies in ChildrenaÃÂ#x80;#x99;s Literature""; ""The Natural Prehistory of aÃÂ#x80;#x9C;The Happy PrinceaÃÂ#x80;#x9D;""; ""An Unwanted Guest in aÃÂ#x80;#x9C;The Birthday of the InfantaaÃÂ#x80;#x9D;""; ""Chapter 8 The Young Know Everything: Oscar WildeaÃÂ#x80;#x99;s Fairy Tales as ChildrenaÃÂ#x80;#x99;s Literature ""; ""Chapter 9 Greater Than the Mystery of Death: Rewriting Oscar Wilde for Young Audiences ""; ""Bibliography""
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bristow, Joseph. Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood.
- ISBN:
- 9783319604114
- 3319604112
- Publisher Number:
- 99979515967
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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