Comprehensive volume of international research on the European reception of Oscar Wilde.
Stefano Evangelista is Fellow and Tutor in English at Trinity College, Oxford, and Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford. His book British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009. Elinor Shaffer FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, has published on Romantic and Victorian literature, is author of `Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School of Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, edited the annual journal Comparative Criticism, and most recently has contributed to Samuel Butler: Victorian Against the Grain.
Series Editor's Preface: The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe
p. vii
Acknowledgements
p. xiii
List of Contributors
p. xv
Abbreviations
p. xx
Reception Timeline
p. xxi
Performance Timeline
p. xxv
Introduction: Oscar Wilde: European by Sympathy
p. 1
Picturing His Exact Decadence: The British Reception of Oscar Wilde
p. 20
Performance and Place: Oscar Wilde and the Irish National Interest
p. 51
The Artist as Aesthete: The French Creation of Wilde
p. 65
Naturalizing Oscar Wilde as an homme de lettres: The French Reception of Dorian Gray and Salomé (1895-1922)
p. 80
André Gide's 'Hommage à Oscar Wilde' or 'The Tale of Judas'
p. 96
'Astonishing in my Italian': Oscar Wilde's First Italian Editions, 1890-1952
p. 108
'Children of Pleasure': Oscar Wilde and Italian Decadence
p. 124
The Strange Adventures of Oscar Wilde in Spain (1892-1912)
p. 141
The Reception of Wilde's Works in Spain through Theatre Performances at the Turn of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
p. 156
Tragedy and the Apostle of Beauty: The Early Literary Reception of Oscar Wilde in Germany and Austria
p. 173
Bunbury in Germany: Alive and Kicking
p. 189
When Critics Disagree, the Artist Survives: Oscar Wilde, an All-Time Favourite of the Viennese Stage in the Twentieth Century
p. 203
Composing Oscar: Settings of Wilde for the German Stage
p. 217
From Continental Discourse to 'A Breath from a Better World': Oscar Wilde and Denmark
p. 229
An Ideal Situation? The Importance of Oscar Wilde's Dramatic Work in Hungary
p. 245
Oscar Wilde and the Czech Decadence
p. 256
The 'Byron of Kipling's England': Oscar Wilde in Croatia
p. 270
'Next to Christ': Oscar Wilde in Russian Modernism
p. 285
Bibliography
p. 301
Index
p. 354
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