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Oscar Wilde in Context
Edited By Kerry Powe
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Description for Oscar Wilde in Context
Paperback. Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time. Editor(s): Powell, Kerry; Raby, Peter. Series: Literature in Context. Num Pages: 438 pages, 39 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AN; DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 58.
Oscar 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. ... Read more
Oscar 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Literature in Context
Condition
New
Number of Pages
438
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781316647585
SKU
V9781316647585
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About Edited By Kerry Powe
Kerry Powell is the author of Acting Wilde (2009), preceded by Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s and Women and Victorian Theatre. He edited The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre and is Professor of English at Miami University. Peter Raby is the author of a study of Oscar Wilde and the editor of The Cambridge Companion ... Read more
Reviews for Oscar Wilde in Context
'… this volume will serve as an indispensable primer for those who wish to fit text to context and context to Wilde.' Gregory Castle, Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies '… 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 ... Read more