Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies

JOSEPH BRISTOW Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, USAFRANCESCA COPPA Associate Professor of English, Muhlenberg College, USAANNE MARGARET DANIEL Teaches Literature and History at Princeton and the New School University, USADENNIS DENISOFF Teaches at Ryerson University, USANOREEN DOODY Lecturer in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College Dublin, UKRICHARD A. KAYE Associate Professor, Department of English, Hunter College, City University of New York, USAPATRICK R. O'MALLEY Assistant Professor of English, Georgetown University, USAALLISON PEASE Associate Professor of English, John Jay College, City University of New York, USAD.C. ROSE Read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford and Arts Administration at University College Dublin, UKMARGARET D. STETZ Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies, University of Delaware, USAPHILIP SMITH Teaches in the English Department, University of Pittsburgh, USA

• 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

'...gives lucid and thorough accounts of the developments of Wilde criticism from Wilde's day to our own, with particular and appropriate emphasis on the explosion of Wilde studies over the last decade...One comes away from this volume feeling enormously heartened by the sheer breadth and catholicity of Wilde studies and of late-nineteenth century studies across the board.' - Jonathan Freedman, Professor of English, University of Michigan, USA'...The ten chapters that make up this informative and stimulating volume, each written by an established specialist, go to the heart of current Wilde scholarship...An extensive chronology and select bibliography are included for good measure. Readers, viewers, Wildean devotees, students of literary tradition and popular culture alike will find here suitable amplification of the reasons Wilde stands apart from all other late-19th-century writers...Highly recommended.' - Choice