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Author:   Joseph Bristow
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Volume:   19
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9781442646445

ISBN 10:   1442646446
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   16 July 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I - Romanticism, Nihilism, and Revivalism: Oscar Wilde, 1874-1882 1 Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Romantic - Chris Foss (University of Mary Washington) 2 Reconsidering Wilde’s Vera; or, the Nihilists- Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (University of California, Davis) 3 Misrecognizing Wilde: Media and Performance on the American Tour of 1882 - Gregory Castle (Arizona State University) PART II -  JOURNALISM: OSCAR WILDE AND THE WOMAN’S WORLD, 1887-1889 4 The Aesthetic Character of Oscar Wilde’s Woman’s World - Molly Youngkin (Loyola Marymount University) 5 Oscar Wilde, Aesthetic Dress, and the Modern Woman: Or Why Sargent’s Portrait of Ellen Terry Appeared in Woman’s World - Loretta Clayton (Macon State College) PART III -  Faith, Belief, and Fiction: Oscar Wilde, 1889-1891 6 Sexual Gnosticism: The Procreative Code of “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” - James Campbell (University of Central Florida) 7 Reading and Re-reading: Wilde, Newman, and the Fiction of Belief - Rachel Ablow (New York State University at Buffalo) 8 Oscar Wilde’s Poetic Injustice in The Picture of Dorian Gray - Neil Hultgren (California State University) Part IV: Translation, Performance, and Fashion: Oscar Wilde and the Stage 9 Wilde’s French - William A. Cohen – (University of Maryland) 10 Fashioning the Modern Woman’s Sexual Turn from Salomé to Ulysses, 1892-1922 - Lois Cucullu (University of Minnesota) 11 Oscar Wilde’s Anadoodlegram: A Genetic, Performative Reading of An Ideal Husband - John Paul Riquelme (Boston University) 12 Transgressive Props; or Oscar Wilde’s E(a)rnest Signifier - Felicia J. Ruff (Wagner College) Part V - Modern Quests for Oscar Wilde 13 Christopher Millard’s Mysterious Book: Oscar Wilde, Baron Corvo, and the Unwritten Quest - Ellen Crowell (Saint Louis University) Index

Reviews

'Reading these essays is a very rewarding experience... Wilde Discoveries is an imaginative exercise in archival and theoretically engaged scholarship.' -- Deaglan O Donghaile The Review of English Studies December 2016

‘Reading these essays is a very rewarding experience… Wilde Discoveries is an imaginative exercise in archival and theoretically engaged scholarship.’ - Deaglán Ó Donghaile (The Review of English Studies December 2016)

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Joseph Bristow is a distinguished professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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