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The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde » (1st Edition)
Authors: Peter Raby
ISBN-13: 9780521479875, ISBN-10: 0521479878
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Peter Raby
Book Synopsis
The essential guide to one of the theatre's most important characters, with an opening essay by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | ||
| Notes on contributors | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Note on references | ||
| Chronology | ||
| 1 | Biography and the art of lying | 3 |
| 2 | Wilde and the Victorians | 18 |
| 3 | Wilde and the Dandyism of the Senses | 34 |
| 4 | Wilde as poet | 57 |
| 5 | Wilde the journalist | 69 |
| 6 | Wilde as critic and theorist | 80 |
| 7 | Wilde's fiction(s) | 96 |
| 8 | Distance, death and desire in Salome | 118 |
| 9 | Wilde's comedies of Society | 143 |
| 10 | The Importance of Being Earnest | 161 |
| 11 | A verdict of death: Oscar Wilde, actresses and Victorian women | 181 |
| 12 | 'A complex multiform creature' - Wilde's sexual identities | 195 |
| 13 | Wilde's plays: some lines of influence | 219 |
| 14 | Wilde on the stage | 249 |
| 15 | Oscar Wilde: the resurgence of lying | 276 |
| Select bibliography | 295 | |
| General index | 299 | |
| Index of works by Oscar Wilde | 306 |
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