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August  2008

J. KERRY POWELL’S PUBLICATIONS ON OSCAR WILDE

Kerry Powell is Professor of English at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

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Books

Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1990

Chapter 1: Rewriting the Past

Chapter 2: Lady Windermere’s Fan and the unmotherly mother

Chapter 3: Salomé, the censor, and the divine Sarah

Chapter 4: Unimportant women and men with a past

Chapter 5: Wilde and Ibsen

Chapter 6: An Ideal Husband: Resisting the feminist police

Chapter 7: The importance being at Terry’s

Chapter 8: Algernon’s Other Brothers

Epilogue

Women and Victorian Theatre.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1997

Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre, ed. Kerry Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004

Acting Wilde:  Oscar Wilde, Victorian Sexuality, and the Theatre.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009

 

Articles

‘Oscar Wilde Acting: The Medium as Message in The Picture of Dorian Gray.’  Dalhousie Review 58, 1978

‘Hawthorne, Arlo Bates and The Picture of Dorian Gray.’ Papers on Language & Literature 16, 1980

‘Tom, Dick & Dorian Gray: Magic Picture Mania in late Victorian Fiction.’  Philological Quarterly 62, 1983

‘The Mesmerizing of Dorian Gray.’  Victorian Newsletter 65, 1984

‘Wilde & Ibsen.’ English Literature in Transition 28 : 3 pp.224-42, 1985

‘“When Critics Disagree”.’  Victorian Newsletter 67 Spring 1985

‘Who Was Basil Hallward?’  English Language Notes 24 : 1, September 1986

Review of Harold Bloom (ed.): Oscar Wilde.  English Literature in Transition 31:1 pp.79-81 1988

Review of Harold Bloom (ed.): Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.  English Literature in Transition 32 : 3 pp.338-41, 1989

(ed.)  ‘“Oscar Wilde: An Appreciation”: An Unpublished Memoir by Elizabeth Robins.’  Nineteenth Century Theatre 21 : 2, Winter 1993

‘Wilde and Two Women: Unpublished Accounts by Elizabeth Robins and Blanche Crackanthorpe.’  In Rediscovering Oscar Wilde,  Colin Smythe: Princess Grace Irish Library vol 8, Gerrards Cross, England 1994

‘Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Robins and the Theatre of the Future.’ Modern Drama 37 : 1, Spring 1994

‘A Verdict of Death: Oscar Wilde and the Actress’ in Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde, ed. Peter Raby. pp. 181-194, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1997

‘Wilde Man: Masculinity, Feminism, and A Woman of No Importance’ in Wilde Writings, ed. Joseph Bristow. pp. 127-146  Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2003

‘Gendering Victorian Theatre’ in Cambridge History of British Theatre, vol. 2: 1660-1895, ed. Joseph Donohue. pp. 352-368, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004

 + ‘Reimagining the Theatre: Women Playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian Period’ with Susan Carlson, in Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre, ed. Kerry Powell. pp. 237-256, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004

‘New Women, New Plays, and Shaw in the 1890s’ in Cambridge Companion to Bernard Shaw, ed. Christopher Innes. pp. 76-102 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998

 

Papers

‘Wilde, Shaw and Women of the Stage.’ Paper given at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Conference: Oscar Wilde and the Culture of the Fin-de-Siècle Session II Los Angeles 5th March1999

‘Wilde Man: Feminism, Oscar Wilde, and the Theatre of Masculinity.’  Paper given at the University of British Columbia Wilde 2000, Vancouver 2nd December 2000

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