Wilde Discoveries

Joseph Bristow is a distinguished professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• List of FiguresPreface and AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPART I - Romanticism, Nihilism, and Revivalism: Oscar Wilde, 1874-18821 Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Romantic - Chris Foss (University of Mary Washington)2 Reconsidering Wilde’s Vera; or, the Nihilists- Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (University of California, Davis)3 Misrecognizing Wilde: Media and Performance on the American Tour of 1882 - Gregory Castle (Arizona State University)PART II -  JOURNALISM: OSCAR WILDE AND THE WOMAN’S WORLD, 1887-18894 The Aesthetic Character of Oscar Wilde’s Woman’s World - Molly Youngkin (Loyola Marymount University)5 Oscar Wilde, Aesthetic Dress, and the Modern Woman: Or Why Sargent’s Portrait of Ellen Terry Appeared in Woman’s World - Loretta Clayton (Macon State College)PART III -  Faith, Belief, and Fiction: Oscar Wilde, 1889-18916 Sexual Gnosticism: The Procreative Code of “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” - James Campbell (University of Central Florida)7 Reading and Re-reading: Wilde, Newman, and the Fiction of Belief - Rachel Ablow (New York State University at Buffalo)8 Oscar Wilde’s Poetic Injustice in The Picture of Dorian Gray - Neil Hultgren (California State University)Part IV: Translation, Performance, and Fashion: Oscar Wilde and the Stage9 Wilde’s French - William A. Cohen – (University of Maryland)10 Fashioning the Modern Woman’s Sexual Turn from SalomÉ to Ulysses, 1892-1922 - Lois Cucullu (University of Minnesota)11 Oscar Wilde’s Anadoodlegram: A Genetic, Performative Reading of An Ideal Husband - John Paul Riquelme (Boston University)12 Transgressive Props; or Oscar Wilde’s E(a)rnest Signifier - Felicia J. Ruff (Wagner College)Part V - Modern Quests for Oscar Wilde13 Christopher Millard’s Mysterious Book: Oscar Wilde, Baron Corvo, and the Unwritten Quest - Ellen Crowell (Saint Louis University)Index

‘Reading these essays is a very rewarding experience… Wilde Discoveries is an imaginative exercise in archival and theoretically engaged scholarship.’- Deaglán Ó Donghaile (The Review of English Studies December 2016)