Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity

By: RILEY, KathleenContributor(s): BLANSHARD, Alastair J. L | MANNY, IarlaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 2018 Edition: 1stISBN: 9780000000000Subject(s): Classical literature--History and criticism | Image, text and culture in classical antiquity | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Contents:
FrontmatterList of IllustrationsList of Contributors0: Introduction: Taking Parnassus to Piccadilly, Kathleen RileyI. WILDE'S CLASSICAL EDUCATION1: Mahaffy and Wilde: A Study in Provocation, Alastair J. L. Blanshard2: How Wilde Read John Addington Symonds's Studies of the Greek Poets, Gideon Nisbet3: 'Very fine & Semitic': Wilde's Herodotus, Iain Ross4: Wilde's Abstractions: Notes on Literæ Humaniores, 1876-8, Joseph BristowII. WILDE AS DRAMATIST5: Beyond Sculpture: Wilde's Responses to Greek Theatre in the 1880s, John Stokes6: Wilde and the Emergence of Literary Drama, 1880-95, Clare L. E. Foster7: 'Tragedy in the disguise of mirth': Robert Browning, George Eliot, and Wilde, Isobel Hurst8: Death by Unrequited Eros: Salome, Hippolytus, and Wilde's Inversion of Tragedy, Kostas BoyiopoulosIII. WILDE AS PHILOSOPHER AND CULTURAL CRITIC9: Imagining Utopia: Oxford Hellenism and the Aesthetic Alternative, Leanne Grech10: 'All the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy': Wilde's 'Epistola' and the Euripidean Christ, Kathleen Riley11: Burning with a 'hard, gem-like flame': Heraclitus and Hedonism in Wilde's Writing, Kate Hext12: Cosmopolitan Classicism: Wilde between Greece and France, Stefano EvangelistaIV. WILDE AS NOVELIST: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY13: Wilde's New Republic: Platonic Questions in Dorian Gray, Marylu Hill14: From Eros to Romosexuality: Love and Sex in Dorian Gray, Nikolai Endres15: Oscar as (Ovid as) Orpheus: Misogyny and Pederasty in Dorian Gray and the Metamorphoses, Iarla MannyV. WILDE AND ROME16: Wilde and Roman History, Philip E. Smith II17: The Criminal Emperors of Ancient Rome and Wilde's 'true historical sense', Shushma Malik18: 'I knew I had a brother!': Fraternity and Identity in Plautus' Menaechmi and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Serena S. WitzkeEndmatterBibliographyIndex
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FrontmatterList of IllustrationsList of Contributors0: Introduction: Taking Parnassus to Piccadilly, Kathleen RileyI. WILDE'S CLASSICAL EDUCATION1: Mahaffy and Wilde: A Study in Provocation, Alastair J. L. Blanshard2: How Wilde Read John Addington Symonds's Studies of the Greek Poets, Gideon Nisbet3: 'Very fine & Semitic': Wilde's Herodotus, Iain Ross4: Wilde's Abstractions: Notes on Literæ Humaniores, 1876-8, Joseph BristowII. WILDE AS DRAMATIST5: Beyond Sculpture: Wilde's Responses to Greek Theatre in the 1880s, John Stokes6: Wilde and the Emergence of Literary Drama, 1880-95, Clare L. E. Foster7: 'Tragedy in the disguise of mirth': Robert Browning, George Eliot, and Wilde, Isobel Hurst8: Death by Unrequited Eros: Salome, Hippolytus, and Wilde's Inversion of Tragedy, Kostas BoyiopoulosIII. WILDE AS PHILOSOPHER AND CULTURAL CRITIC9: Imagining Utopia: Oxford Hellenism and the Aesthetic Alternative, Leanne Grech10: 'All the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy': Wilde's 'Epistola' and the Euripidean Christ, Kathleen Riley11: Burning with a 'hard, gem-like flame': Heraclitus and Hedonism in Wilde's Writing, Kate Hext12: Cosmopolitan Classicism: Wilde between Greece and France, Stefano EvangelistaIV. WILDE AS NOVELIST: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY13: Wilde's New Republic: Platonic Questions in Dorian Gray, Marylu Hill14: From Eros to Romosexuality: Love and Sex in Dorian Gray, Nikolai Endres15: Oscar as (Ovid as) Orpheus: Misogyny and Pederasty in Dorian Gray and the Metamorphoses, Iarla MannyV. WILDE AND ROME16: Wilde and Roman History, Philip E. Smith II17: The Criminal Emperors of Ancient Rome and Wilde's 'true historical sense', Shushma Malik18: 'I knew I had a brother!': Fraternity and Identity in Plautus' Menaechmi and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Serena S. WitzkeEndmatterBibliographyIndex