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Project MUSE Commons 11512015 Wilde's Long Ute IProject MUSE Commons PROJECT MUSE COMMONS MUSE Commons Home Groups People Blogs Activity Albums Getting Started Recent Posts &J Wilde's Long Life • Wilde's Long Life • Celebrating Omohundro Institute Publications in MUSE • Look for MUSE at AHA and MLA • Studying Jewish Studies before AJS'14 ~ lizadmin 11III Books, Feature, Journals, Literature, Writers ~ January 5, 2015 • No Comments» • From Harlem to Chicago Renaissance • Next Up: Association for Jewish Like {I] 8+1 0 Studies • Tradition and Modernity Guest post by Robert Langenfeld, Editor and Publisher of • The Social Force 'English Language in Transition, 1880-1920' and ELT Press. That Drives Us • Remembering From 'The Intentional Strategy in Oscar Wilde's Dialogues" by Nelson Mandela D. J. Thomas in 1969 and the often downloaded "'In a mirror • From Freedom that mirrors the soul': Masks and Mirrors in Dorian Gray' by Summer to Medal of Donald R. Dickson in 1983 to two articles in 2014 that Freedom reconsider Wilde as Irishman (Richard Haslam's 'The _; j • The Journal of Hermeneutic Hazards of Hibernicizing Oscar Wilde's The 1 Individual Psychology Picture of Dorian Gray' and Anne Markey's 'Wilde the 2015 • MUSE Will Exhibit at Irishman Reconsidered: 'The Muses care so little for MESA geography!"'), Oscar continues to be a prominent figure in the volumes of English • Hijab: The Politics of Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. Clothing We begin 2015 with another important addition to the scholarship, Laurence • Ferguson: Disposable Lives Dumortier's "Oscar's Wilde's Multitudes: Against Limiting His Photographic Iconography." It explores how the overrepresentation of Wilde's aesthetic period has • Whither the Arab influenced our understanding of him as "a cultural figure, particularly as a queer icon." Spring? Dumortier argues that the "overprivileging of the 1882/ Sarony session in Wilde's iconography reflects a contemporary understanding of Wilde's persona, but it also Search constrains understanding, doing insufficient justice to Wilde's complexities and variations over time." SEARCH FOR: It's all here at MUSE~ver fifty articles and nearly 190 book reviews-because the _1m~~=m~.a""<>QI2O''''''/051wUdes-=:e runof ELT, from 195710 the present, is ,eTIy available. 1/5 1/012015 Wilde's Long Ufe I Project MUSE Commons Wilde is represented in the books of ELT Press as well. Ian Small's Oscar Wilde Revalued (1993) and Oscar Wilde: Recent Research, A Supplement to 'Oscar Wilde Revlaued' (2000) survey research in the important decade of the 1990s, the Archives beginnings of the "gay" Wilde, the "Irish" Wilde, and 'Wilde and Consumerism." Though out of print, both books are still valuable to researchers and sought after-available only at UPCC. • January 2015 • December 2014 Josephine Guy and Ian Small's Studying Oscar Wilde: History, • November 2014 Criticism, and Myth (2006) remains a timely, original discussion. • October 2014 They are interested in the tension between Wilde's enduring • September 2014 popularity with the general reading public and his status among academics as a • August 2014 complex, politicized writer attuned to philosophical currents associated with modernity. • July 2014 The book challenges a number of commonly held views while examining Wilde's lesser- • June 2014 known writings, such as "The Cardinal of Avignon," arguing that these "failed" works • May 2014 provide important insight into the reasons for Wilde's popular success. • April 2014 Dig into Wilde in these EL T articles: • March 2014 Ahmadgoli, Kamran and Ian Small. ''The Creative Editor: Robert Ross, Oscar Wilde and the Collected Works," 51.2 (2008),138-151. Bashford, Bruce. "Oscar Wilde, His Criticism and His Critics," 20.4 (1971),181-81. Bashford, Bruce. "Oscar Wilde and Subjectivist Criticism," 21. 4 (1978), 218-34. Bashford, Bruce. "Oscar Wilde as Theorist: The Case of De Profundis," 28.4 (1985), 395-406. Beckson, Karl. "Oscar Wilde and the Green Carnation," 43.4 (2000), 387-97. Boroughs, Rod. "Oscar Wilde's Translation of Petronius: The Story of a Literary Hoax," 38.1 (1995),9-49. Bruder, Anne. "Constructing Artist and Critic Between J. M. Whistler and Oscar Wilde: 'In the best days of art there were no art-critics,'" 47.2 (2004), 161-80. Buckler, William E. "Building a Bulwark Against Despair: 'The Critic as Artist'," 32.3 (1989),279-89. Buckler, William E. 'Wilde's 'Trumpet Against the Gate of Dullness': 'The Decay of Lying' ," 33.3 (1990), 311-23. Burkhart, Charles. "Ada Leverson and Oscar Wilde," 13.3 (1970), 193-200. Clayworth, Anya. "Oscar Wilde and Macmillan and Co.: The Publisher and the Iconoclast," 44.1 (2001), 64-78. Clayworth, Anya and Ian Small. '''Amiel and Lord Beaconsfield': An Unpublished Review by Oscar Wilde," 39.3 (1996) 284-97. Davis, Eugene W. "Oscar Wilde, Salome, and the German Press 1902-1905," 44.2 (2001),149-80 Dickson, Donald R. '''In a mirror that mirrors the soul': Masks and Mirrors in Dorian Gray," 26.1 (1983),5-15. Dumortier, Laurence. "Oscar's Wilde's Multitudes: Against Limiting His Photographic Iconography," 58.2 (2015),147-63. http://musecommons.org/blog/2015101/051wildes-long-lifel 2/5 1/512015 Wilde's Long Ufe I Project MUSE Commons Fang, Bobby. "Oscar Wilde: Five Fugitive Pieces," 22.1 (1979),7-16. Gillespie, Michael Patrick. "Picturing Dorian Gray: Resistant Readings in Wilde's Novel," 35.1 (1992),7-25. Gordon, Jan. '''The Wilde Child': Structure and Origin in the Fin-de-Siecle Short Story," 15.4 (1972), 277-90. Guy, Josephine M. Wilde's "De Profundis and Book History: Mute Manuscripts," 55.4 (2012),419-40. Guy, Josephine M. and Ian Small. "Reading De Profundis," 49.2 (2006), 123-49. Guy, Josephine M. and Ian Small. "How Many 'Bags of Red Gold'? The Extent of Wilde's Success as a Dramatist," 42.3 (1999), 283-97. Guy, Josephine M. "Self-Plagiarism, Creativity and Craftsmanship in Oscar Wilde," 41.1 (1998), 6-23. Haslam, Richard. ''The Hermeneutic Hazards of Hibernicizing Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray," 57.1 (2014),37-58. Jackson, Russell, and Ian Small. "Some New Drafts of a Wilde Play," 30.1 (1987), 7-15. Ksinan, Catharine.'Wilde as Editor of Woman's World: Fighting a Dull Slumber in Stale Certitudes," 41.4 (1998), 408- 26. Ledger, Sally. 'Wilde Women and The Yellow Book: The Sexual Politics of Aestheticism and Decadence," 50.1 (2007), 5-26. McCormack, Jerusha. "Masks Without Faces: The Personalities of Oscar Wilde," 22.4 (1979),253-69. Mackie, Gregory. "Forging Oscar Wilde: Mrs. Chan-Toon and For Love of the King," 54.3 (2011), 267-88. Markey, Anne. 'Wilde the Irishman Reconsidered: "'The Muses care so little for geography!'" 57.4 (2014),443-62. Monsman, Gerald. ''The Platonic Eros of Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde: 'Love's Reflected Image' in the 1890s," 45.1 (2002), 26-45. Navarre, Joan."Oscar Wilde, Edward Heron-Allen, and the Palmistry Craze of the 1880s," 54.2 (2011),174-84. Newell, Stephanie. "Fragments of Oscar Wilde in Colonial Nigeria: The Story of J. M. Stuart-Young," 47.1 (2004),3-27. Losey, Jay. ''The Aesthetics of Exile: Wilde Transforming Dante in Intentions and De Profundis," 36.4 (1993), 429-50. O'Brien, Kevin H. F. "Robert Sherard: Friend of Oscar Wilde," 28.1 (1985), 3-29. Pappas, John. ''The Flower and the Beast: A Study of Oscar Wilde's Antithetical Attitudes Toward Nature and Man in The Picture of Dorian Gray," 15.1 (1972),37-48. Portnoy, William Evans. 'Wilde's Debt to Tennyson in Dorian Gray," 17.4 (1974), 259- 61. Powell, Kerry.'Wilde and Ibsen," 28.3 (1985), 224-42. http://musecommons.orgiblog/2015101/05Iwildes-long-lifel 3/5 1/512015 Wilde's Long Ufe IProject MUSE Commons Ruggaber, Michelle. 'Wilde's The Happy Prince and A House of Pomegranates: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups," 46.2 (2003),141-53. Schweik, Robert. "Congruous Incongruities: The Wilde-Beardsley 'Collaboration'," 37.1 (1994),9-26. Shuter, William. "Pater, Wilde, Douglas and the Impact of "Greats," 46.3 (2004), 250-7B. Small, Ian and Anya Clayworth. "'Amiel and Lord Beaconsfield': An Unpublished Review by Oscar Wilde," 39.3 (1996), 284-97. Small, Ian. "Some Unpublished Wilde Letters," 41.1 (199B), 58-63. Small, Ian. "Popular Wilde: A Review Essay," 40.3 (1997), 310-16. Smith, Philip E. III. 'Wilde in the Bodleian, 1878-1881," 46.3 (2004), 279-95. Spirit, Jane. "Emerging Views of Byzantium, 1850-1930: Germs of the Modern and Its Paradoxes," 38.2 (1995), 157-67. Stavros, George. "Oscar Wilde on the Romantics," 20.1 (1977), 35-45. Stokes, John. 'Wilde at Bay: The Diaries of George Ives," 26.3 (1983), 175-86. Taylor, Welford Dunaway. "A 'Soul' Remembers Oscar Wilde," 14.1 (1971),43-48. Thomas, J. D., "The Intentional Strategy in Oscar Wilde's Dialogues," 12.1 (1969), 11- 20. Wainwright, Michael. "Oscar Wilde, the Science of Heredity, and The Picture of Dorian Gray," 54.4 (2011), 494-522. Ware, James A. "Algernon's Appetite: Oscar Wilde's Hero as Restoration Dandy," 13.3 (1970),17-26. Watson, Edward A. ''The Critic as Artist," 27.3 (1984), 225-35. White, Leslie. 'Wilde, Browning and the 'New Obscurity' ," 42.1 (1999), 4-22 Image of Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony, NY, 1882. Like 0 8+1 0 Leave a Reply * Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * NAME * EMAIL http://musecommons.org/blogl2015101/0S1wildes-long-lifel 415.
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