Wilde writings contextual conditions (Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references and index
pt. 1. Wilde writings : Wilde's world: Oscar Wilde and theatrical journalism in the 1880s / John Stokes -- "The soul of man under socialism": a (con)textual history / Josephine M. Guy -- Love-letter, spiritual autobiography, or prison writing? Identity and value in De Profundis / Ian Small -- Wilde's exquisite pain / Ellis Hanson -- pt. 2. Wilde stages : Wilde man: masculinity, feminism, and A woman of no importance / Kerry Powell -- Wilde, and how to be modern: or, bags of red gold / Peter Raby -- Master Wood's profession: Wilde and the subculture of homosexual blackmail in the Victorian theater -- pt. 3. Wilde contexts : Wilde's The woman's world and the culture of aesthetic philanthropy / Diana Maltz -- The origins of the aesthetic novel: Ouida, Wilde, and the popular romance / Talia Schaffer -- Oscar Wilde, new women, and the rhetoric of effeminacy / Lisa Hamilton -- Oscar Wilde and Jesus Christ / Stephen Arata -- pt. 4. Wilde legacies : Oscar Wilde's legacies to Clarion and New age socialist aestheticism / Ann Ardis -- Salomé in China: the aesthetic art of dying / Xiaoyi Zhou
"Wilde Writings brings together research by established and emerging scholars, some of whom draw on unpublished archival material, and all of whom have something new and enlightening to say about Wilde. The collection provides fresh insights into critical debates about Wilde and effeminacy, masochism, and Christian theology, and also draws attention to significant problems in the textual editing of his writings, his debt to the 'aesthetic' fiction of the novelist Ouida, and the popularity of his drama in twentieth-century China."--Jacket