Buch, Englisch, 624 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1225 g
Buch, Englisch, 624 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1225 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-286695-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde puts Wilde the Icon into an expansive literary and dramatic context. It offers a readable guide to Wilde studies for the early twenty-first century. Its chapters reflect Wilde's status as a queer writer while filling in the gaps that this focus have left and looking forward to the next generation of critical studies on Wilde. It is designed to appeal to students and those with a general interest in Wilde, as well as professional academics. Its comprehensive discussions of his writings show how these interact with, and transfigure, both their age and his life, while providing readers with clear and extensive suggestions on approaches to reading, thinking, and writing about them.
It is organized in four sections: Places, Works, Intellectual Contexts, and Reception. The first section on Places tells the story of Wilde's life and intellectual evolution through the places that defined its contours: Dublin, Oxford, London, America, France, and Italy. The second section on Wilde's Works provides new and in-depth directions to close reading Wilde's writing, with generative ideas on the development, style, structure, and significance of each of his major works. The section on Intellectual Contexts brings together chapters on the main ideas and cultures of thought that shaped Wilde's thinking, from late-nineteenth century sexuality and fashion to the ancient world and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The final section on Reception focuses on the central categories in which Wilde's works and life have been read and influenced cultural movements since his death. Wilde's afterlife has been vibrant and chapters in this section include discussions of how he influenced camp and pop, alongside the contentious textual history of his works.
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction: Wilde Variety
- The Life
- 1: Jarlath Killeen: Ireland
- 2: Alex Murray: Oxford
- 3: Kate Hext: America
- 4: Nick Freeman: London
- 5: Joseph Bristow: The Trials
- 6: Peter Stoneley: Prison
- 7: Elisa Bizzotto: Exile in France and Italy
- The Works
- 8: Kostas Boyiopoulos: Early Poems
- 9: Deaglán Ó Donghaile: Vera and 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism'
- 10: Mark Turner: The Journalism
- 11: Dustin Friedman: The Portrait of Mr W.H. and the short fiction
- 12: Caroline Sumpter: Fairy Tales
- 13: Josephine M. Guy: Intentions
- 14: Giles Whiteley: The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 15: Matthew Potolsky: The Picture of Dorian Gray in Context--Aestheticism, Imperialism, and Capitalism
- 16: Petra Dierkes: Salome
- 17: Sos Eltis: Lady Windermere's Fan
- 18: Anne Varty: A Woman of No Importance
- 19: Greg Mackie: An Ideal Husband
- 20: Francesca Coppa: The Importance of Being Earnest
- 21: Matthew Bradley: De Profundis
- 22: John Stokes: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- Intellectual Contexts
- 23: Shushma Malik: Classical Rome
- 24: Alastair Blanshard: Classical Greece
- 25: Richard Hibbitt: Wilde and France
- 26: Margaret D. Stetz: Wilde and Women
- 27: Lindsay Wilhelm: Evolution
- 28: Simon Joyce: Wilde and Sexuality
- 29: Dominic Janes: Wilde and Fashion
- 30: Dennis Denisoff: Wilde and the Natural World
- 31: Wilde and the Visual Arts
- Reception
- 32: Rebecca N. Mitchell: Textual History
- 33: Di Cotofan Wu: Wilde in East Asia
- 34: Robert Stilling: Wilde in Africa and the Caribbean
- 35: Kristin Mahoney: Wilde and Camp
- 36: Neil Sammells: Wilde and Pop Culture
