Salome's modernity : Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression /
Dierkes-Thrun, Petra,1968-
Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.
Introduction -- Dancing on the threshold: Wilde's Salome between symbolist, decadent, and modernist aesthetics -- "The brutal music and the delicate text"? Richard Strauss's operatic modernism in Salome -- Perverts in court: Maud Allan's the vision of Salome and the Pemberton-Billing trial -- Alla Nazimova's Salome: an historical phantasy by Oscar Wilde -- Portraits of the artist as a gay man and Salome as a feminist icon: Wilde and Salome in popular culture since the 1980s.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Salome (Biblical figure)
Deviant behavior in literature.
Modernism (Aesthetics)