The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde
Author:   S. Salamensky
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9780230117891


Pages:   210
Publication Date:   15 December 2011
Format:   Hardback
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The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde


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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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Author:   S. Salamensky
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.405kg
ISBN:  

9780230117891


ISBN 10:   0230117899
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   15 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Wilde Worlds: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and the Queer Modernity of Performance   Wilde Women: Staging Home, Homeland, and the Social Actress   Wilde Words: Mod Money, Transylvanian Transmissions, and the Magicking of the Material Body   Wilde Ways: Salomé and the Performance of the Transgendered Jewess Hysteric   What Do We Want from Wilde?: Culture, Memory, and the Trials of Time

Reviews

""[Salamensky's] insights, couched in stylish prose and backed up by deep scholarship, merit a place in Wilde studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."" - CHOICE ""Truly groundbreaking This is not only an extremely incisive example of historical/cultural scholarship - impacting performance studies, literary criticism, popular culture studies, and literary/cultural history - it also gives us the first extended work on Oscar Wilde through the lens of Jewish Studies. Salamensky opens many doors here - and proceeds to go through them with depth, insight, and synthesis."" - Frederick S. Roden, associate professor of English, University of Connecticut


Truly groundbreaking... This is not only an extremely incisive example of historical/cultural scholarship - impacting performance studies, literary criticism, popular culture studies, and literary/cultural history - it also gives us the first extended work on Oscar Wilde through the lens of Jewish Studies. Salamensky opens many doors here - and proceeds to go through them with depth, insight, and synthesis. - Frederick S. Roden, associate professor of English, University of Connecticut


Truly groundbreaking This is not only an extremely incisive example of historical/cultural scholarship - impacting performance studies, literary criticism, popular culture studies, and literary/cultural history - it also gives us the first extended work on Oscar Wilde through the lens of Jewish Studies. Salamensky opens many doors here - and proceeds to go through them with depth, insight, and synthesis. - Frederick S. Roden, associate professor of English, University of Connecticut


Author Information

S. I. SALAMENSKY Associate Professor of Performance Studies at UCLA, USA.

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