Oscar Wilde in Context
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Oscar Wilde in Context: (Literature in Context)

Oscar Wilde in Context: (Literature in Context)


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Oscar Wilde was a courageous individualist whose path-breaking life and work were shaped in the crucible of his time and place, deeply marked by the controversies of his era. This collection of concise and illuminating articles reveals the complex relationship between Wilde's work and ideas, and contemporary contexts including Victorian feminism, aestheticism and socialism. Chapters investigate how Wilde's writing was both a resistance to and quotation of Victorian master narratives and genre codes. From performance history to film and operatic adaptations, the ongoing influence and reception of Wilde's story and work is explored, proposing not one but many Oscar Wildes. To approach the meaning of Wilde as an artist and historical figure, the book emphasises not only his ability to imagine new worlds, but also his bond to the turbulent cultural and historical landscape around him - the context within which his life and art took shape.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Chronology; An appreciation: Oscar Wilde: the art of the somdomite Mark Ravenhill; Part I. Placing Wilde: 1. Son and parents: Speranza and Sir William Wilde Sean Ryder; 2. Wilde's Dublin; Dublin's Wilde Jerusha McCormack; 3. Oxford, Hellenism, male friendship Philip E. Smith, II; 4. An aesthete in America Leon Litvak; 5. Wilde's London Matt Cook; 6. Wilde and Paris John Stokes; Part II. Aesthetic and Critical Contexts: 7. Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes' Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol Joseph Bristow; 8. William Morris and the house beautiful Marcus Waithe; 9. Wilde and British art Richard Dorment; 10. Aubrey Beardsley and Salome Susan Owens; 11. Between two worlds and beyond them: John Ruskin and Walter Pater John Paul Riquelme; 12. Wilde, Henry James, and the fate of aestheticism Michèle Mendelssohn; 13. Style at the fin de siècle: aestheticist, decadent, symbolist Ellis Hanson; 14. Poisoned by a book: the lethal aura of The Picture of Dorian Gray Peter Raby; 15. Rewriting farce Kerry Powell; 16. Bernard Shaw and 'Hibernian drama' Anthony Roche; 17. Wilde, the fairy tales, and the oral tradition Jarlath Killeen; Part III. Cultural and Historical Contexts: Ideas, Iterations, Innovations: 18. Oscar Wilde's crime and punishment: fictions, facts, and questions Merlin Holland; 19. Wilde and evolution David Clifford; 20. Dandyism and late-Victorian masculinity James Eli Adams; 21. Oscar Wilde and the New Woman Margaret D. Stetz; 22. Wilde and socialism Josephine Guy; 23. Wilde and Christ Jan-Melissa Schramm; 24. Aestheticism Ruth Livesey; 25. Journalism Mark W. Turner; 26. Censorship of the stage: writing on the edge of the allowed Helen Freshwater; 27. Feminism Barbara Caine; 28. Wilde and the law H. G. Cocks; Part IV. Reception and Afterlives: 29. Reception and performance history of The Importance of Being Earnest Joseph Donohue; 30. Reception and performance history of Wilde's 'society plays' Sos Eltis; 31. A short history of Salome Steven Price; 32. Wilde and stage design: some deductions, appraisals and selected instances Richard Cave; 33. Wilde life: Oscar on film Oliver S. Buckton; 34. Wilde and performativity Lynn Voskuil; 35. Wilde and his editors Russell Jackson; 36. Wilde's texts, contexts and The Portrait of Mr W. H. Ian Small; Further reading.

About the Author :
Kerry Powell is the author of Acting Wilde (2009), preceded by Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s and Women and Victorian Theatre. He edited The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre and is Professor of English at Miami University. Peter Raby is the author of a study of Oscar Wilde and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde and The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Among his other books are biographies of Harriet Smithson Berlioz, Samuel Butler and Alfred Russel Wallace. He is a Fellow Emeritus of Homerton College, Cambridge.

Review :
'… this volume will serve as an indispensable primer for those who wish to fit text to context and context to Wilde.' Gregory Castle, Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies '… Powell and Raby offer a wonderful spectrum of new and old contexts for Oscar Wilde that will interest scholars and afficionados alike. Taken together, the chapters illustrate just how impossible it is to pin Wilde down in any particular context. Like Dorian's ego, Wilde's life 'fits no single narrative', as Ravenhill reminds us. Oscar Wilde in Context is a testament to the richness of Wilde scholarship today and a welcome new addition to it.' Petra Dierkes-Thrun, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781316647585
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 438
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Literature in Context
  • Weight: 640 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1316647587
  • Publisher Date: 23 Mar 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 154 mm


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