| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (438 p.) |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Notes -- Chronology -- An appreciation -- Part I Placing Wilde -- Chapter 1 Son and parents: Speranza and Sir William Wilde -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Wilde's Dublin |
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Dublin's Wilde -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Oxford, Hellenism, male friendship -- Notes -- Chapter 4 An aesthete in America -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Wilde's London -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Wilde and Paris -- Notes -- Part II Aesthetic and critical contexts |
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Chapter 7 Oscar Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes's Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol -- Notes -- Chapter 8 William Morris and the House Beautiful -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Wilde and British art -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Aubrey Beardsley and Salome -- Notes |
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Chapter 11 Between two worlds and beyond them: John Ruskin and Walter Pater -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Oscar Wilde, Henry James and the fate of aestheticism -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Style at the fin de siècle: aestheticist, decadent, symbolist -- Notes |
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Chapter 14 Poisoned by a book: the lethal aura of The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Rewriting farce -- Notes -- Chapter 16 Bernard Shaw and 'Hibernian drama' -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Wilde, the fairy tales and the oral tradition -- Notes |
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Part III Cultural and historical contexts: ideas, iterations, innovations |
| Note |
225 annual accesses. |
| Alt author |
Raby, Peter, 1939-
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| ISBN |
9781107723641 |
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