Screen LibraryOscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood /
This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde s interest in children s culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children s rights within the prison system, his fascination with yout...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60411-4 |
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This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde s interest in children s culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children s rights within the prison system, his fascination with youthful beauty, and his theological contemplation of what it means to be a child in the eyes of God. The collection also examines the ways in which Wilde s works not just his fairy stories have been adapted for young audiences. . |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XVIII,245pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319604114 |
| Index Number: | PN760 |
| CLC: | I561.078 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction: Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood - Joseph Bristow -- 2. "Play[ing] Narcissus to a photograph": Oscar Wile and the Image of the Child - Lindsay Smith -- 3. The Good Aesthetic Child and Deferred Aesthetic Education - Diana Maltz -- 4. Wilde's Legacy: Fairy Tales, Laurence Housman, and the Expression of "Beautiful Untrue Things" - Lorraine Janzen Kooistra -- 5. Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, and the Politics of Dress and Decoration in the Fin-de-Si cle Fairy Tale - Amanda Hollander -- 6. The Aesthetics of Altruism in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales - Maria Tatar -- 7. Oscar Wilde's Fairly Tales and the Evolution of Lying - Jessica Straley -- The Young Know Everything: Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales as Children's Literature - Perry Nodelman -- 9. Greater than the Mystery of Death: Rewriting Oscar Wilde for Young Audiences - Margaret D. Stetz. |