{"product_id":"oscar-wilde-in-context-hardback-9781107016132","title":"Oscar Wilde in Context (Hardback) 9781107016132","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOscar Wilde in Context\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConcise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKerry Powell (Edited by), Peter Raby (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107016132, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 December 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e438 pages, 39 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.75 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… Powell and Raby offer a wonderful spectrum of new and old contexts for Oscar Wilde that will interest scholars and afficionados alike. Taken together, the chapters illustrate just how impossible it is to pin Wilde down in any particular context. Like Dorian's ego, Wilde's life 'fits no single narrative', as Ravenhill reminds us. Oscar Wilde in Context is a testament to the richness of Wilde scholarship today and a welcome new addition to it.' Petra Dierkes-Thrun, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOscar Wilde was a courageous individualist whose path-breaking life and work were shaped in the crucible of his time and place, deeply marked by the controversies of his era. This collection of concise and illuminating articles reveals the complex relationship between Wilde's work and ideas, and contemporary contexts including Victorian feminism, aestheticism and socialism. Chapters investigate how Wilde's writing was both a resistance to and quotation of Victorian master narratives and genre codes. From performance history to film and operatic adaptations, the ongoing influence and reception of Wilde's story and work is explored, proposing not one but many Oscar Wildes. To approach the meaning of Wilde as an artist and historical figure, the book emphasises not only his ability to imagine new worlds, but also his bond to the turbulent cultural and historical landscape around him - the context within which his life and art took shape.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e An appreciation: Oscar Wilde: the art of the somdomite Mark Ravenhill\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Placing Wilde: 1. Son and parents: Speranza and Sir William Wilde Sean Ryder\u003cbr\u003e 2. Wilde's Dublin\u003cbr\u003e Dublin's Wilde Jerusha McCormack\u003cbr\u003e 3. Oxford, Hellenism, male friendship Philip E. Smith, II\u003cbr\u003e 4. An aesthete in America Leon Litvak\u003cbr\u003e 5. Wilde's London Matt Cook\u003cbr\u003e 6. Wilde and Paris John Stokes\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Aesthetic and Critical Contexts: 7. Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes' Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol Joseph Bristow\u003cbr\u003e 8. William Morris and the house beautiful Marcus Waithe\u003cbr\u003e 9. Wilde and British art Richard Dorment\u003cbr\u003e 10. Aubrey Beardsley and Salome Susan Owens\u003cbr\u003e 11. Between two worlds and beyond them: John Ruskin and Walter Pater John Paul Riquelme\u003cbr\u003e 12. Wilde, Henry James, and the fate of aestheticism Michèle Mendelssohn\u003cbr\u003e 13. Style at the fin de siècle: aestheticist, decadent, symbolist Ellis Hanson\u003cbr\u003e 14. Poisoned by a book: the lethal aura of The Picture of Dorian Gray Peter Raby\u003cbr\u003e 15. Rewriting farce Kerry Powell\u003cbr\u003e 16. Bernard Shaw and 'Hibernian drama' Anthony Roche\u003cbr\u003e 17. Wilde, the fairy tales, and the oral tradition Jarlath Killeen\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Cultural and Historical Contexts: Ideas, Iterations, Innovations: 18. Oscar Wilde's crime and punishment: fictions, facts, and questions Merlin Holland\u003cbr\u003e 19. Wilde and evolution David Clifford\u003cbr\u003e 20. Dandyism and late-Victorian masculinity James Eli Adams\u003cbr\u003e 21. Oscar Wilde and the New Woman Margaret D. Stetz\u003cbr\u003e 22. Wilde and socialism Josephine Guy\u003cbr\u003e 23. Wilde and Christ Jan-Melissa Schramm\u003cbr\u003e 24. Aestheticism Ruth Livesey\u003cbr\u003e 25. Journalism Mark W. Turner\u003cbr\u003e 26. Censorship of the stage: writing on the edge of the allowed Helen Freshwater\u003cbr\u003e 27. Feminism Barbara Caine\u003cbr\u003e 28. Wilde and the law H. G. Cocks\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Reception and Afterlives: 29. Reception and performance history of The Importance of Being Earnest Joseph Donohue\u003cbr\u003e 30. Reception and performance history of Wilde's 'society plays' Sos Eltis\u003cbr\u003e 31. A short history of Salome Steven Price\u003cbr\u003e 32. Wilde and stage design: some deductions, appraisals and selected instances Richard Cave\u003cbr\u003e 33. Wilde life: Oscar on film Oliver S. Buckton\u003cbr\u003e 34. Wilde and performativity Lynn Voskuil\u003cbr\u003e 35. Wilde and his editors Russell Jackson\u003cbr\u003e 36. Wilde's texts, contexts and The Portrait of Mr W. H. Ian Small\u003cbr\u003e Further reading.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Plays, playscripts [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Plays, playscripts\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Plays,%20playscripts%20%5BDD%5D%22\"\u003eDD\u003c\/a\u003e], Theatre studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theatre studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theatre%20studies%20%5BAN%5D%22\"\u003eAN\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265484804376,"sku":"9781107016132","price":74.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107016132i.jpg?v=1692023389","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/oscar-wilde-in-context-hardback-9781107016132","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}