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.

Autorentext

S. I. SALAMENSKY Associate Professor of Performance Studies at UCLA, USA.

Inhalt
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: Salomé and the Performance of the Transgendered Jewess Hysteric What Do We Want from Wilde?: Culture, Memory, and the Trials of Time