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The Picture of Dorian Gray in the Twenty-First Century -

The Picture of Dorian Gray in the Twenty-First Century

New Essays on Oscar Wilde's Classic Novel

Richard A. Kaye (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
344 Seiten
2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-065903-5 (ISBN)
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This collection of new essays devoted to Oscar Wilde's classic novel presents new critical work by prominent scholars that deal with numerous aspects of the famed novel. Essays range from early literary influences on the novel and its controversial early reception to its afterlife in literature, film, dance, photography, theatre, and television.

In addition to considering Dorian Gray as an iconic queer work of fiction that daringly challenged late-Victorian literary practices, the volume explores Wilde's novel in terms of the history of the European novel and the book's innovations as a gothic, supernatural work that defied the conventions of nineteenth-century realism. Along with striking illustrations of the novel since its publication --including images from popular adaptations-- the volume includes never-before translated early reviews of the novel in the European press along with an unpublished parody of Wilde's novel in the form of an "examination paper" by the English writer Max Beerbohm. Edited by Richard Kaye, this volume offers multiple and fascinating perspectives on Oscar Wilde's classic in fourteen highly readable essays.

Richard A. Kaye is Professor of English at Hunter College and in the Ph.D. Program in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the editor of The D. H. Lawrence Review, the fifty-year old scholarly journal devoted to the British writer.

Introduction: The Haunting of Dorian Gray
The Precedents, Sources, and Literary Contexts of Dorian Gray
1: The Picture of Dorian Gray and the Aesthetic Tradition: Faithful Allusion, Perilous Misquotation
2: The Picture That Failed, or the Light of Dorian Gray
3: "What Never Dies": The Picture of Dorian Gray and Its Afterlife in French Literature and Art
The Visual Imagination of The Picture of Dorian Gray
4: Picturing Dorian: Temporality, Abstraction, and Modernity in The Picture of Dorian Gray
5: Illustrating Dorian Gray: The Contingent Ephemerality of Beauty
Dorian Gray's Philosophical, Cultural, and Erotic Entanglements
6: The Vitality of Dorian Gray: Darwinism, Philosophy, Life
7: "A Form of Reverie, a Malady of Dreaming": Dorian Gray, Personality, and Mass Culture
8: Dorian Gray's Generic Hybridity and the Aesthetics of Queer Form
The Formal Vicissitudes of a Decadent Novel
9: Exquisite Fantasy: Language and Anti-Mimesis in The Picture of Dorian Gray
10: Fin-de-Siècle Feelings: Melodrama and the Aesthetics and Ethics of Emotion in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
11: The Most Decadent Chapter: Ornamentation, Influence, and the Challenge to Realism in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray's Afterlife in Fiction, Film, Theater, Dance, and Performance
12: The Vienna "Dorian Gray Epidemic" of 1907: Theatrical Distortion, Critical Dissent, and the First Stagings of Wilde's Novel
13: Red Herrings and Yellow Birds: The 1945 Hollywood Film The Picture of Dorian Gray
14: Dorian Gray Forever: Decadence, Glamor, and the Vicissitudes of Pop Culture Adaptation

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 35
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 180 x 253 mm
Gewicht 658 g
Themenwelt Literatur
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 0-19-065903-3 / 0190659033
ISBN-13 978-0-19-065903-5 / 9780190659035
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