Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer's reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his...
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Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer's reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas. Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction: Joseph Bristow -- 1 Oscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, and Late-Victorian Table-Talk -- 2 Sexuality in the Age of Technological Reproducibility: Oscar Wilde, Photography, and Identity -- 3 Salomé as Bombshell, or How Oscar Wilde Became an Anarchist -- 4 Oscar Wilde and the Politics of Posthumous Sainthood: Hofmannsthal, Mirbeau, Proust -- 5 The Trouble with Oskar: Wilde's Legacy for the Early Homosexual Rights Movement in Germany -- 6 Staking Salomé: The Literary Forefathers and Choreographic Daughters of Oscar Wilde's "Hysterical and Perverted Creature" -- 7 "Surely You Are Not Claiming to Be More Homosexual than I?" Claude Cahun and Oscar Wilde -- 8 Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband and W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife: A Dialogue -- 9 Transcripts and Truth: Writing the Trials of Oscar Wilde -- 10 The Artist as Protagonist: Wilde on Stage -- 11 Wilde Lives: Derek Jarman and the Queer Eighties -- 12 Oscar Goes to Hollywood: Wilde, Sexuality, and the Gaze of Contemporary Cinema -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.