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Author Davis, Michael F

Title Wilde's Other Worlds
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature.
Contents Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; 1 Wilde's Other Worlds: An Introduction; PART I Inherited Worlds; 2 History as Seduction: Wilde and the Fascination of Heredity; 3 Oscar Wilde's American Forebears: A Genealogy of Form for Reading The Picture of Dorian Gray; 4 Haunting "The Harlot's House"; PART II Aesthetic Worlds; 5 Wilde's Cosmos: Language, Citation, and Aesthetic Communities; 6 Oscar Wilde's Las Meninas: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl; PART III Mythical Worlds
7 Salomé and Saint Sebastian: Modern Myths in Wilde and D'Annunzio8 Eros/Threnos: Mournful Necrophilia in Wilde and Fernando Pessoa's Antinous; 9 Wagner without Music: The Textual Rendering of Parsifal's Pity in Oscar Wilde's "The Young King"; PART IV Alternative Worlds; 10 "I am not a Catholic, I am simply a violent Papist": Oscar Wilde's Protestant "Romishness"; 11 Oscar Wilde, Rachilde, and the Mercure de France; PART V Afterworlds; 12 The Sexual Transfiguration of the Japanese Salomé, 1909-2009
13 The Other Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name: Wilde's Jewish "Fans" in World War II-Era Cinema14 Hospitality Divorced from the Home: The Cosmopolitan Idea(l) from Oscar Wilde to Satyajit Ray; Index
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Subject Gender identity in literature.
Literature, Modern -- 19th century.
Irish literature.
Literature, Modern
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Gender identity in literature
Irish literature
Literature, Modern
Form Electronic book
Author Dierkes-Thrun, Petra
LC no. 2018005255
ISBN 9781351108898
1351108891