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Setting the Record Queer Rethinking Oscar Wilde's »The Picture of Dorian Gray« and Virginia Woolf's »Mrs. Dalloway« Dirk Schulz
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schulz, Dirk <p>Dirk Schulz, Universität zu Köln, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
- Lettre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- Queer.
- Culture.
- Novel.
- Wilde.
- Woolf.
- Gender.
- British Studies.
- Queer Theory.
- Gender Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Literature.
- Queer.
- Culture.
- Novel.
- Wilde.
- Woolf.
- Gender.
- British Studies.
- Queer Theory.
- Gender Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Schulz, Setting the Record Queer Rethinking Oscar Wilde's »The Picture of Dorian Gray« and Virginia Woolf's »Mrs. Dalloway«
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Dirk Schulz is a postdoctoral researcher at the English Department of the University of Cologne, where he teaches courses on anglophone literature and culture, and is editorial assistant of »Gender Forum. An Internet Journal for Gender Studies«. His fields of interest include literary and cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, semiotics, the gothic, popular culture and critical theory.
- Summary:
- »To define is to limit«, Lord Henry states, and Mrs. Dalloway »would not say of anyone [...] that they were this or that«. Why then are the respective novels mostly read – and in recent adaptations rewritten – in denial of their genuinely ambiguous designs?Bringing the two literary classics together for the first time, their shared concerns regarding textual and sexual identities are revealed. Challenging an established critical record commonly related to Oscar Wilde's and Virginia Woolf's own mythologised biographies, this study underscores the value of constantly rethinking labels by liberating the texts from the limiting grip of categorical readings.
- Reviewed in:Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, 23.2/9 (2012), Sylvia Mieszkowski
- Contents:
- 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 1. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mrs. Dalloway 9 2. The Record So Far So Not Good 25 3. Queer Questioning: Sexed Texts 45 4. Dorian and Dalloway: A Comparison 67 5. Wilde Rewritings 139 6. Rewriting Woolf 205 7. Conclusion: Con-Fusion 261 8. Works Cited 267
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839417454
- 3839417457
- OCLC:
- 906184230
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