Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies is a comprehensive guide to recent critical approaches. Topics covered include Gay Studies, Feminist Criticism, Material Culture, Religion, Philosophy, Performance Studies, Aestheticism, Biography, Textual Studies and Postcolonial Theory. The book is designed to acquaint readers of all levels with the history of scholarship in a range of fields and suggest ways that Wilde's work offer new areas for research. The collection also provides a Chronology and detailed bibliography.

Autorentext

JOSEPH BRISTOW Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, USA FRANCESCA COPPA Associate Professor of English, Muhlenberg College, USA ANNE MARGARET DANIEL Teaches Literature and History at Princeton and the New School University, USA DENNIS DENISOFF Teaches at Ryerson University, USA NOREEN DOODY Lecturer in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College Dublin, UK RICHARD A. KAYE Associate Professor, Department of English, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA PATRICK R. O'MALLEY Assistant Professor of English, Georgetown University, USA ALLISON PEASE Associate Professor of English, John Jay College, City University of New York, USA D.C. ROSE Read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford and Arts Administration at University College Dublin, UK MARGARET D. STETZ Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies, University of Delaware, USA PHILIP SMITH Teaches in the English Department, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Zusammenfassung
Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies offers new and exciting research on an author of enduring interest. Including ten chapters by major voices in current scholarship on the author, this volume provides the state of the field as well as original interpretations in a manner that is accessible to both the specialist and novice reader. Chapters interrogate questions of Wilde, Ireland and Empire, the relationship between gay studies and queer theory and the place of feminist approaches. It is interdisciplinary, representing performance studies and literary studies, and also encompasses philosophical and religious perspectives on Wilde. This book provides a useful chronology, history of criticism and bibliography, and each chapter guides the reader towards an understanding of a specific methodology. Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies will be of interest to the advanced undergraduate and postgraduate student, the lecturer and the scholar - whoever craves a knowledge of the latest waves in Wilde criticism.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chronology; D.C.Rose Introduction; F.S.Roden Biographies; J.Bristow Wilde the Writer; A.M.Daniel Performance Theory and Performativity; F.Coppa Aestheticism and Aesthetic Theory; A.Pease Oscar Wilde, Commodity, Culture; D.Denisoff Philosophical Approaches to Interpretation of Oscar Wilde; P.Smith Religion; P.R.O'Malley Gay Studies/Queer Theory and Oscar Wilde; R.A.Kaye Oscar Wilde and Feminist Criticism; M.D.Stetz Oscar Wilde: Nation and Empire; N.Doody Selected Bibliography Index