The modern art of influence and the spectacle of Oscar Wilde
By: S.I. Salamensky
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230117891
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Aesthetics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Criticism and interpretation; Influence; Appreciation; DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Modernism (Aesthetics); Contemporaries
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Wilde Worlds : Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and the Queer Modernity of Performance; title: Wilde Women : Staging Home, Homeland, and the Social Actress; title: Wilde Words : Mod Money, Transylvanian Transmissions, and the Magicking of the Material Body; title: Wilde Ways : Salome and the Performance of the Transgendered Jewess Hysteric; title: What Do We Want from Wilde? : Culture, Memory, and the Trials of Time.