The Life of Oscar Wilde: A Study of Victorian Sexuality

History 481: The Major Seminar 2 Sean Dixon

Professor Beers April 29, 2011 Bibliography Secondary Sources Books

Behrendt, Patricia Flanagan. Oscar Wilde: Eros and Aesthetics . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.

Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend . Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008.

Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde . New York: Vintage Books, 1988.

Foldy, Michael S. The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Glick, Elisa. Materializing Queer Desire: Oscar Wilde to Andy Warhol . Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.

Guy, Josephine M. Studying Oscar Wilde: History, Criticism, and Myth . 1880-1920 British authors series no. 22. Greensboro, NC: ELT Press, 2006.

Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values . 1st ed. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1995.

Holland, Merlin. The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of the Trial of Oscar Wilde Vs. John Douglas (Marquess of Queensbury), 1895 . 1st ed. New York: Fourth Estate, 2003.

Houghton, Walter E. The Victorian frame of mind, 1830-1870 . Yale University Press, 1957.

Koven, Seth. Slumming: sexual and social politics in Victorian London . Princeton University Press, 2004.

Lambourne, Lionel. The Aesthetic Movement . Phaidon, 1996.

McKenna, Neil. The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde . New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Mendelssohn, Michèle. Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture . Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Nunokawa, Jeff, and Amy Sickels. Oscar Wilde . Infobase Publishing, 2005.

Page, Norman. An Oscar Wilde Chronology . Boston, Mass: G. K. Hall, 1991.

Pearce, Joseph. The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde . San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2004.

Shaw, Bernard. Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas, a Correspondence . New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1982.

Sloan, John. Oscar Wilde . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Von Eckardt, Wolf. Oscar Wilde's London: A Scrapbook of Vices and Virtues, 1880-1900 . 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Press, 1987.

Walkowitz, Judith R. City of dreadful delight: narratives of sexual danger in late-Victorian London . University of Chicago Press, 1992.

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and University of California, Los Angeles. Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions . UCLA Clark Memorial Library series. Toronto: Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2003.

Wintermans, Caspar. Alfred Douglas: A Poet's Life and His Finest Work . London: Peter Owen Pub, 2007.

Wright, Thomas. Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde . 1st ed. New York: Henry Holt and Co, 2009.

Journals

Adut, Ari. “A Theory of Scandal: Victorians, Homosexuality, and the Fall of Oscar Wilde.” The American Journal of Sociology 111, no. 1 (July 2005): 213-248. Bashford, Bruce. “Review: When Critics Disagree: Recent Approaches to Oscar Wilde.” Victorian Literature and Culture 30, no. 2 (2002): 613-625.

Christie, Dolores L. “The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues To Modern Values.” Magill Book Reviews (1996).

Cohen, Ed. “Writing Gone Wilde: Homoerotic Desire in the Closet of Representation.” PMLA 102, no. 5 (October 1987): 801-813.

Frankel, Nick. “Wilde's "Intentions" and the Simulation of Meaning.” Victorian Literature and Culture 24 (1996): 115-137.

Saint-Amour, Paul K. “Oscar Wilde: Orality, Literary Property, and Crimes of Writing.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 55, no. 1 (June 2000): 59-91.

Schaffer, Talia. “Fashioning Aestheticism by Aestheticizing Fashion: Wilde, Beerbohm, and the Male Aesthetes' Sartorial Codes.” Victorian Literature and Culture 28, no. 1 (2000): 39-54.

Wood, Alice I. Perry. “Oscar Wilde as a Critic.” The North American Review 202, no. 721 (December 1915): 899-909.

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S H G. “OSCAR WILDE AS A REFORMER.” New York Evangelist 62, no. 15 (April 9, 1891): 2.

Wilde, Oscar. Poems . 2nd ed. London: David Bogue, 1881.

Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People . L. Smithers, 1899. Wilde, Oscar. Sebastian Melmoth . London: A. L. Humphreys, 1904.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray . Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1908.

Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. A Woman of No Importance . New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919.

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Wilde, Oscar. De Profundis . Unexpurgated [ed.]. New York: Vintage Books, 1964.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Complete Plays / Introduced by H. Montgomery Hyde . Methuen’s world dramatists. London: Methuen Drama, 1989.

Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere’s Fan ; Salome ; A Woman of No Importance ; An Ideal Husband ; The Importance of Being Earnest . Oxford world’s classics (Oxford University Press). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays . Penguin classics. London, England: Penguin Books, 2000.

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“OSCAR WILDE’S POEMS.” The Literary World; a Monthly Review of Current Literature 12, no. 16 (July 30, 1881): 261. “Very Wild(e) Pomegranates.” The Critic: a Weekly Review of Literature and the Arts 17, no. 527 (March 26, 1892): 189.

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“A Stale Joke.” Harp Week . London, England, July 22, 1882.

“OSCAR WILDE’S CYNICISM.: THE APOSTLE OF THE LILY SAYS SOME REAL CUTTING THINGS ABOUT LIFE.” The Washington Post . Washington, D.C., August 10, 1890, sec. 2.

“We Noticed Mr. Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’.” The Times . London, England, March 8, 1894, 34206 edition, sec. Col B.

“Arrest of Mr. Oscar Wilde.” The Times , April 6, 1895, 34544 edition, sec. Col E.

“OSCAR WILDE IN A CELL.” The Washington Post . Washington, D.C., April 6, 1895.

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“The Affairs of Oscar Wilde.” The Times , August 23, 1895, 34663 edition, sec. Col F.