Quintessential Wilde : his worldly place, his penetrating philosophy and his influential aestheticism /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Magid, Annette M. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Subjects:	Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses. Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Influence > Congresses. Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Conference papers and proceedings. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Oscar Wilde and the passion of the absurd / Linda Archer
"The sordid shame of the great city" : sexuality and aesthetics in Oscar Wilde's representations of London / Oliver Buckton
The soul of man under aestheticism : Wilde's contintinuing impact on queer activism / Dejan Kuzmanovic
Oscar Wilde's worldliness : lecturing in America / Annette M. Magid
Wilde's stories : lyrical and universal epitome of adult indifference to children's suffering / Sema Ege
Celebrity, (auto)biography and failure in Wilde's De profundis / Pierpaolo Martino
The Judas kiss, Gross indecency, Velvet goldmine : the postmodern masks of Oscar Wilde / Heather Marcovitch
Reclaiming the fisherman : soul searching and the subversive in Oscar Wilde's fairy tales / Arian Mashilker
Two mysterious portraits : Gogol and Wilde on art and artists / Anastasia G. Pease
"The portrait of Mr. W.H." and Oscar Wilde's revisionist history of same-sex desire / Frederick D. King
Oscar Wilde stands uneasy : the individual and aestheticism / Linda Maureen Gordon
Breathing new life into legends : Oscar Wilde and the doctrines of the aesthetic movement / Moira DiMauro-Jackson.