The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 September 2025
- ISBN 9780192866950
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages624 pages
- Size 254x180x40 mm
- Weight 1215 g
- Language English 770
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Short description:
This Handbook puts Wilde the Icon into an expansive literary, cultural, and dramatic context. Its thirty-six contributors offer a readable guide to Wilde studies for the early twenty-first century. Its comprehensive discussions of his writings show how these interact with, and transfigure, both their age and his life.
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The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde puts Wilde the Icon into an expansive literary and dramatic context. It offers a readable guide to Wilde studies for the early twenty-first century. Its chapters reflect Wilde's status as a queer writer while filling in the gaps that this focus have left and looking forward to the next generation of critical studies on Wilde. It is designed to appeal to students and those with a general interest in Wilde, as well as professional academics. Its comprehensive discussions of his writings show how these interact with, and transfigure, both their age and his life, while providing readers with clear and extensive suggestions on approaches to reading, thinking, and writing about them.
It is organized in four sections: Places, Works, Intellectual Contexts, and Reception. The first section on Places tells the story of Wilde's life and intellectual evolution through the places that defined its contours: Dublin, Oxford, London, America, France, and Italy. The second section on Wilde's Works provides new and in-depth directions to close reading Wilde's writing, with generative ideas on the development, style, structure, and significance of each of his major works. The section on Intellectual Contexts brings together chapters on the main ideas and cultures of thought that shaped Wilde's thinking, from late-nineteenth century sexuality and fashion to the ancient world and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The final section on Reception focuses on the central categories in which Wilde's works and life have been read and influenced cultural movements since his death. Wilde's afterlife has been vibrant and chapters in this section include discussions of how he influenced camp and pop, alongside the contentious textual history of his works.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Wilde Variety
The Life
Ireland
Oxford
America
London
The Trials
Prison
Exile in France and Italy
The Works
Early Poems
Vera and 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism'
The Journalism
The Portrait of Mr W.H. and the short fiction
Fairy Tales
Intentions
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray in Context--Aestheticism, Imperialism, and Capitalism
Salome
Lady Windermere's Fan
A Woman of No Importance
An Ideal Husband
The Importance of Being Earnest
De Profundis
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Intellectual Contexts
Classical Rome
Classical Greece
Wilde and France
Wilde and Women
Evolution
Wilde and Sexuality
Wilde and Fashion
Wilde and the Natural World
Wilde and the Visual Arts
Reception
Textual History
Wilde in East Asia
Wilde in Africa and the Caribbean
Wilde and Camp
Wilde and Pop Culture
