Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde

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

• 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

"[Salamensky's] insights, couched in stylish prose and backed up by deep scholarship, merit a place in Wilde studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - CHOICE"Truly groundbreaking This is not only an extremely incisive example of historical/cultural scholarship - impacting performance studies, literary criticism, popular culture studies, and literary/cultural history - it also gives us the first extended work on Oscar Wilde through the lens of Jewish Studies. Salamensky opens many doors here - and proceeds to go through them with depth, insight, and synthesis." - Frederick S. Roden, associate professor of English, University of Connecticut