Research Catalog

Title

Oscar Wilde / editor, Frederick S. Roden, University of Connecticut.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Roden, Frederick S., 1970-

Description

xxxix, 300 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subjects

• English literature
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• Social perception in literature
• 1800-1899
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Ethics in literature
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-276) and index.

Contents

About this volume / Frederick S. Roden -- On Oscar Wilde : introduction / Frederick S. Roden -- Oscar Wilde : a biography / Kimberly J. Stern -- Critical Contexts -- Wilde's World / Anne Anderson -- Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Show / Colin Cavendish-Jones -- "Myriad meanings" : Oscar Wilde's critical afterlives / Benjamin Hudson -- Queer Wilde / Nikolai Endres -- Critical Readings -- Imagining greatness : the staging of Oscar Wilde in America / Annette M. Magid -- "His warmest admirers" : Oscar Wilde and his interactions with women / Eleanor Fitzsimons -- Sex, love, and the nineteenth century : the case of Lady Windermere / Melissa Knox -- Wilde's social comedies and the well-made play / Anne Varty -- The importance of artifice : ritual and language play in The Importance of Being Earnest / Ruth Robbins -- Beyond the romantic imagination : Oscar Wilde's aesthetics / Julie-Ann Robson -- "I believe in Willie Hughes" : The Portrait of Mr. W.H. / Sharon Bickle and Marie Heneghan -- The importance of being green : Pen, Pencil, and Poison as a study in close reading and color de-coding / Chriss Foss -- "Two men of note" : Oscar Wilde and Sherlock Holmes / Rebecca Nesvet -- Oscar Wilde's mysticism in De Profundis / Oscar Gallo-Serratos -- Transcending the trauma : theatrical interventions in the Wilde trials / Todd Barry -- Picture this : Oscar Wilde's mobile and migratory "the happy prince" / Margaret D. Stetz -- "A strange fascination" : Oscar Wilde, the dangers of captivated reading, and twenty-first-century media consumption / Amanda Farage -- Resources -- Chronology of Oscar Wilde's Life / Kimberly J. Stern -- Selected works by Oscar Wilde / Rebecca Nesvet with James Duffy

Call Number

JFE 20-4859

ISBN

• 9781642653090
• 1642653098

OCLC

1129455541

Title

Oscar Wilde / editor, Frederick S. Roden, University of Connecticut.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-276) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Roden, Frederick S., 1970- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4859