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The modern art of influence and the spectacle of Oscar Wilde
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Title
The modern art of influence and the spectacle of Oscar Wilde / S.I. Salamensky.
ISBN
9780230117891
0230117899
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Physical Description
vi, 210 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary
"Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the "modern" and our own, postmodern, lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 22, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Wilde Worlds : Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and the Queer Modernity of Performance
Wilde Women : Staging Home, Homeland, and the Social Actress
Wilde Words : Mod Money, Transylvanian Transmissions, and the Magicking of the Material Body
Wilde Ways : Salome and the Performance of the Transgendered Jewess Hysteric
What Do We Want from Wilde? : Culture, Memory, and the Trials of Time.
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