The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde [electronic resource] /
Salamensky, S.author.
Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives.
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Cover; The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Why Wilde?; Chapter 1: Wilde Ways: The Modern Art of Influence and the "professor of Aesthetics"; "A Queer High-Flavored Fruit" Comes to America; Julia Constance Fletcher, Rhoda Broughton, and Wilde Characters; James and Wilde Performance; James, Wilde, and the Queerness of Performance; James, Wilde, Proto-Modernity, and Performativity; James, Wilde, Theatricality, and the Scene of Representation; Chapter 2: Wilde Women: Salomé and the Spectacle of the Transgendered Jewess hysteric
Text, Performance, Cultural Context, and Social DisplayThe Ancient Hebrew, the East End Jew, and the Modern Jewess; Spectacles of Affect from Mesmer to Wilde; Chapter 3: Wilde Words: Money, Morality, Metaphysics, and the "Modern" Man; Chatter, Commerce, Sex, and Ethics in An Ideal Husband; The Impotence of Being Earnest and Mod Ontologics; Earnest in High Definition; Chapter 4: Wilde Worlds: The "Trick of Talk" and the Magicking of the Material Body; Biographing the Wilde Word/World Divide; "Soul," "Senses," and Desire in Dorian Gray; Wilde's Trials and the Body of Evidence
Wilde's Trials as Historiographic SpectacleAfterword: What do We Want from Wilde?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
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