Wilde's other worlds / edited by Michael F. Davis and Petra Dierkes-Thrun.
| Other author | Davis, Michael F. |
| Other author | Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2017. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 37 |
| Contents | Wilde's other worlds: An introduction / Michael F. Davis and Petra Dierkes-Thrun -- History as seduction: Wilde and the fascination of heredity / James Eli Adams -- Oscar Wilde's American forebears: A genealogy of form for reading The Picture of Dorian Gray / Sean O'Toole -- Haunting: The Harlot's House / Jamil Mustafa -- Wilde's cosmos: Language, citation, and aesthetic communities / Megan Becker-Leckrone -- Oscar Wilde's Las Meninas: A portrait of the artist as a young girl / Michael F. Davis -- Salom©♭ and Saint Sebastian: Modern myths in Wilde and D'Annunzio / Elisa Bizzotto -- Eros/Threnos: Mournful necrophilia in Wilde and Fernando Pessoa's Antinous / Kostas Boyiopoulos -- Wagner without music: The textual rendering of Parsifal's Pity in Oscar Wilde's "The Young King" / Yvonne Ivory -- "I am not a Catholic, I am simply a violent papist": Oscar Wilde's Protestant "Romishness" / Claire Masurel-Murray -- Oscar Wilde, Rachilde, and the Mercure de France / Petra Dierkes-Thrun -- The sexual transfiguration of the Japanese Salom©♭, 1909-2009 / Maho Hidaka -- The other love that dared not speak its name: Wilde's Jewish "fans" in WWII-era cinema / Margaret Stetz -- Hospitality divorced from the home: The cosmopolitan idea(l) from Oscar Wilde to Satyajit Ray / Julia Prewitt Brown. |
| Abstract | "Taking its cue from Baudelaire's important essay 'The Painter of Modern Life,' in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a "man of the world," this collection of essays presents Oscar Wilde as a "man of the world" who eschewed provincial concerns, cultural conventions, and narrow national interests in favor of the wider world and other worlds--both real and imaginary, geographical and historical, physical and intellectual--which provided alternative sites for exploration and experience, often including alternative gender expression or sexual alterity. Wilde had an unlimited curiosity and a cosmopolitan spirit of inquiry that traveled widely across borders, ranging freely over space and time. He entered easily and wholly into other countries, other cultures, other national literatures, other periods, other mythologies, other religions, other disciplines, and other modes of representation, and was able to fully inhabit and navigate them, quickly apprehending the conventions by which they operate. The fourteen essays in this volume offer fresh critical-theoretical and historical perspectives not just on key connections and aspects of Wilde's oeuvre itself, but on the development of Wilde's remarkable worldliness in dialogue with many other worlds: contemporary developments in art, science and culture, as well as with other national literatures and cultures. Perhaps as a direct result of this cosmopolitan spirit, Wilde and Wilde's works have been taken up across the globe, as the essays on Wilde's reception in India, Japan and Hollywood illustrate. Many of the essays gathered here are based on groundbreaking archival research, including some never-seen-before illustrations"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018005255 |
| ISBN | 9780815363590 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (adobe reader) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (mobi) |
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