Oscar Wilde and modern culture
Subtitle: the making of a legend
By: edited by Joseph Bristow.
Contributors: Bristow, Joseph.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780821418376; 9780821418383
Subjects: Wilde, Oscar, -- 1854-1900 -- Influence; Wilde, Oscar, -- 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation; Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Oscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, and late-Victorian table-talk / Lucy McDiarmid; title: Sexuality in the age of technological reproducibility: Oscar Wilde, photography, and identity / Daniel A. Novak; title: Salom: as bombshell, or how Oscar Wilde became an anarchist / Erin williams Hyman; title: Oscar Wilde and the politics of posthumous sainthood: Hofmannsthal, Mirbeau, Proust / Richard A. Kaye; title: The trouble with Oskar: Wilde's legacy for the early homosexual rights movement in Germany / Yvonne Ivory; title: Staking Salom: the literary forefathers and choreographic daughters of Oscar Wilde's "Hysterical and perverted creature" / Julie Townsend; title: "Surely you are not claiming to be more homosexual than I?" / Claude Cahun and Oscar Wilde / Lizzie Thynne / Oscar Wilde's an ideal husband and W. Somerset Maugham's the constant wife: a dialogue / Laurel Brake; title: Transcripts and truth: writing the trials of Oscar Wilde / Leslie J. Moran; title: The artist as protagonist: Wilde on stage / Francesca Coppa; title: Wilde lives: Derek Jarman and the queer eighties / Matt Cook; title: Oscar goes to Hollywood: Wilde, sexuality, and the gaze of contemporary cinema / Oliver S. Buckton.