| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 210 pages) |
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Forword: why Wilde -- Wilde ways: the modern art of influence and the "Professor of Aesthetics" -- Wilde women : Salomé and the spectacle of the transgendered Jewess hysteric -- Wilde words: money, morality, metaphysics, and the "Modern" man -- Wilde worlds: the "Trick of Talk" and the magicking of the material body -- Afterword: what do we want from Wilde? |
| Summary |
"Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the "modern" and our own, postmodern, lives"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index |
| Subject |
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Aesthetics
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Influence
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Appreciation
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Contemporaries
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 fast |
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Aesthetics
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Art appreciation
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Contemporaries
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137011886 |
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1137011882 |
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