The Wilde Century

The Wilde Century
Author: Alan Sinfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231101660

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Explores how the characters in Oscar Wilde's plays, though not specifically gay, epitomize today's image of the effeminate male, how they relate to British theatrical fops and other characters since early modern times, how the representation of same-sex passion was altered by Wilde's expose and trial as a homosexual, and how the stereotype of the gay man became established in the 20th century. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Wilde Century

The Wilde Century
Author: Alan Sinfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1994
Genre: Aestheticism (Literature)
ISBN: 9780304219056

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Out on Stage

Out on Stage
Author: Alan Sinfield
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300081022

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This intriguing, authoritative book tracks stage representations of lesbians and gay men from Oscar Wilde to the present day and examines scores of British and American plays and playwrights, including works by Wilde, Maugham, Coward, Hellman, O'Neill, Le Roi Jones, and Joe Orton.

Oscar Wilde Prefigured

Oscar Wilde Prefigured
Author: Dominic Janes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 022635864X

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That there is a queeras opposed to merely homosexualhistory before Oscar Wilde will come as news to many in the sexuality studies field. Oscar Wilde Prefigured. It turns out that there is indeed a history of queerness, and that is originated in the early 18th century, coming to a head, as it were, by the end of the 19th. Dominic Janes draws on lots of new historical material, especially parodies and stereotypes in caricatures of sodomy and effeminacy. Front and center, then, are the 18th-century macaronies and mollies and men of feeling, the Regency dandies, and Victorian aesthetes. Visual display become a powerful historical tableau, generating a long history of queerness/homosexuality via caricatures of allegedly effeminate types. Images of effeminacy became a cultural field in which same-sex desire could be expressed. Wilde, then, was not the starting-point of public gay figures, but the endpoint. Wilde, in turn, is the pivot for connecting the Georgian figures to 20th-century stereotypes of camp (think Liberace), using images drawn from theater, fashion, and popular press to reveal new dimensions of identity politics and queer culture."

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde
Author: Richard Ellmann
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2013-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0804151121

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Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit, creativity, and charm of the psychologically and sexually complicated writer, as well as the darker aspects of his personality and life. Covering everything from Wilde's rise as a young literary talent to his eventual imprisonment and death in exile with exquisite detail, Ellmann's fascinating account of Wilde's life and work is a resounding triumph.

On Sexuality and Power

On Sexuality and Power
Author: Alan Sinfield
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0231134096

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This book argues that hierarchies in interpersonal relations are inextricably linked to the main power differentials of our social and political life (gender, class, age, and race); therefore it is not surprising that they govern our psychic lives. Recent writing enables an exploration of their positive potential, especially in fantasy, as well as their danger. The book focuses on the writing of the last thirty years, revisiting also Whitman, Wilde, Mann, Forster, and Genet, and reassessing the very idea of a gay canon.

Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books

Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books
Author: Nicholas Frankel
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780472110698

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With extensive reference to and exposition on Wilde's theoretical writings and letters, Frankel shows that, far from being marginal elements of the literary text, these decorative devices were central to Wilde's understanding of his own writings as well as to his "aesthetic" theory of language. Extensive illustrations support Frankel's arguments.".

Built of Books

Built of Books
Author: Thomas Wright
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2010-04-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 142993509X

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An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books This intimate account of Oscar Wilde's life and writings is richer, livelier, and more personal than any book available about the brilliant writer, revealing a man who built himself out of books. His library was his reality, the source of so much that was vital to his life. A reader first, his readerly encounters, out of all of life's pursuits, are seen to be as significant as his most important relationships with friends, family, or lovers. Wilde's library, which Thomas Wright spent twenty years reading, provides the intellectual (and emotional) climate at the core of this deeply engaging portrait. One of the book's happiest surprises is the story of the author's adventure reading Wilde's library. Reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges's fictional hero who enters Cervantes's mind by saturating himself in the culture of sixteenth-century Spain, Wright employs Wilde as his own Virgilian guide to world literature. We come to understand how reading can be an extremely sensual experience, producing a physical as well as a spiritual delight.

Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece

Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
Author: Iain Ross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1107020328

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Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.

Wilde’s Wiles

Wilde’s Wiles
Author: Annette M. Magid
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2014-08-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443865974

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Wilde’s Wiles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays which celebrates the diversity of Oscar Wilde’s genius. This unique collection of scholarship explores not only his influence on a broad spectrum of subjects including: aesthetics, children’s literature, women’s issues, consumer economics, queer theory, politics, theater, film, poetry, Victorianism and other aspects of culture such as pedagogical approaches to Wilde’s literature, but it also examines the influence of his family and friends on him. Wilde’s Wiles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century includes a wide range of approaches and concentrations written by international experts and has a broad spectrum of subjects which will appeal to a diversity of scholars seeking original and alternative approaches to understanding Oscar Wilde. The multiplicity of interest in the topic of Oscar Wilde expands across genres, disciplines, cultures and time, this being the second century of Wilde scholarship since his untimely death in November 1900 preceding the fin-de siècle. The unique, multi-discipline approach of Wilde’s Wiles is organized in three sections: “Aesthetic Approaches,” “Friends and Family,” and “Performance and Pedagogy” and bridges philosophical, sociological, psychological, economic and literary disciplines.