The modern art of influence and the spectacle of Oscar Wilde
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | 2012. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | vi, 210 p.: ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780230117891 0230117899 |
Index Number: | I561 |
CLC: | I561.064 |
Call Number: | I561.064/S159 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p.[189]-203) and index. Forword: why Wilde -- Wilde ways: the modern art of influence and the "Professor of Aesthetics" -- Wilde women : Salome 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?. "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"-- |