BIBLIOGRAPHIES

DISSERTATIONS ON OSCAR WILDE 1989-2005

October 2008

In 1990 there was published in New York Anglo-Irish Literature: a bibliography of dissertations, 1873-1989, compiled by William T. O’Malley of the University of Rhode Island. This was followed by a Supplement published on line at http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/libts_pubs/1, covering dissertations completed from 1989 to 2005. This remarkable list (of several dozen pages and over two thousand entries) gives the name of the author, date of completion, title of dissertation, a keyword or word denoting the principal subject(s) if that does not appear in the title, and the university, in that order. On the assumption that dissertation refers to Ph.D or D.Phil (or its equivalent) rather than Masters, I have extracted the following titles referring to Wilde from the Supplement: there are 167 of these. Many of the authors have gone on to publish on or teach Wilde; some are on our own Board of Editors. As usual, we print the names of our subscribers in bold.

· We will be very happy to publish synopses of any of these dissertations; and to learn of new ones.

[Two notices of caution: it is not disclosed how substantial is the engagement indicated by the keyword; and the Supplement is packed with typing errors – though given its scope it is only surprising that there are not more – and I may not have caught them all. –Editor, THE OSCHOLARS.]

1. Al-Kassim, D. L. (1997). On pain of speech: fantasies of the first order and the literary rant [Wilde], California (Santa Barbara).

2. Allison, M. C. (1994). Cultural metaphors on trial: gender and identity re-examined in British and Anglo-Indian literature [Wilde], Minnesota.

3. Andersen, M. C. (1989). Autobiographical responses to prison experience: an examination of selected writings ofthe late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries [Behan, Wilde], South Africa.

4. Anger, S. (1994). Victorian hermeneutics and literary interpretations [Wilde], University of Washington.

5. Balter, A. H. (1997). Consuming desires: material culture and the turn-of-the-century novel in England and the United States [Wilde], Tufts.

6. Barris, J. L. (1991). Lacan and Wilde: pure artificiality as the two highest goods, SUNY (Stony Brook).

7. Bashant, W. E. (1990). The double blossom and a sterile kiss: androgynous theory and its empediment in the Nineteenth Century [Stoker, Wilde, Yeats], Rochester.

8. Becker, M. L. (1996). Aesthete Agonistes: reflections of the artist in Wordsworth, Pater, Wilde, and Joyce, California (Irvine).

9. Behrendt, P. F. (1988). Brilliant sins and exquisite amusements: Eros and aethetics in the works of Oscar Wilde, Nebraska. [Fiona Barr], Texas.

10. Berg, R. L. (1990). How to tell lies: epistemology and gender politics in Modernist narratives [Wilde], Cornell.

11. Blasi, M. (2001). Narcissism in Nineteenth Century literature [Wilde], CUNY.

12. Bochman, S. (2005). Less than ideal husbands and wives: satiric and serious marriage themes in the works of Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde. CUNY.

13. Briefel, A. J. (2000). Counterproductions: gender and authenticity in Nineteenth Century narrative [Wilde], Harvard.

14. Bulbeck, H. J. (2001). Educative ethics in fin de siècle thought, with special reference to educational hermeneutics in the life and works of Oscar Wilde, Southampton.

15. Burnsed, T. R. (2001). Staging the Great Hunger: Anglo-Irish modernism in Wilde, Shaw, and Yeats, Colorado.

16. Burrow, M. (1997). Bordering the aesthetic: Oscar Wilde and the discourses of literary modernity, Sussex.

17. Calvert-Finn, J. (2004). The institution of modernism and the discourse of culture: Hellenism, decadence, and authority from Walter Pater to T. S. Eliot [Wilde], Ohio State. Cameron, J. M. (1992).

18. Camlot, J. E. (1999). Sincere mannerisms: style and critical identity in British letters, 1830-1900 [Wilde], Stanford.

19. representation in Wild(e) Victorian discourse [Wilde], Toledo.

20. Cauti, C. (2003). The revolt of the soul: Catholic conversion among 1890s London aesthetes [Wilde, Yeats], Columbia.

21. Chatzidimitriou, I. (2003). Decadent failures: Memory in selected fin-de-siècle texts [Wilde], North Carolina.

22. Clayworth, A. L. (1996). ‘Laurels don’t come for the asking’: Oscar Wilde’s career as a professional journalist, Birmingham.

23. Cooper, L. A. (2005). Gothic realities: the emergence of cultural forms through representations of the unreal [Wilde], Princeton

24. Craft, C. C. (1989). Another kind of love: sodomy, inversion, and male homosexual desire in English discourse, 1850-1897 [Stoker, Wilde], California (Berkeley).

25. Crump, J. E. (1996). Suffering the ideal: F. Holland Day, British decadence and American philhellenism [Wilde], New Mexico.

26. Cruzalegui Sotelo, P. (1995). The Platonic experience in Nineteenth Century Britain [Wilde], Barcelona.

27. Daniel, A. M. (1999). Felonious behavior: crime and punishment in the fiction of Charlotte Bronte, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf, Princeton.

28. DaSilva, S. (1998). Transvaluing immaturity: Hellenism, primitivism, and a reverse discourse of male homosexuality in late-Victorian and Edwardian narrative [Wilde], Rice.

29. Dattner-Garza, B. B. (1999). Identity through the social phenomenon of sadomasochism in Conrad, Wilde, and Poe, Nebraska.

30. Debelius, M. A. (2000). The riddle of the sphinx at the fin de siècle [Wilde], Princeton.

31. Dennison, M. J. (1996). Delights of the night and pleasures of the void: vampirism and entropy in Nineteenth Century literature [Stoker, Wilde], Louisiana State.

32. Dewsnap, D. P. (1996). Negotiations with the market: ‘fin-de-siècle’ aestheticism and commodity culture [Wilde], Virginia.

33. Dierkes-Thrun, P. (2003). The Salome theme in the wake of Oscar Wilde: Transformative aesthetics of sexuality in modernity, Pittsburgh

34. Dirks, R. (2002). The symbolist novel as secular scripture: Huysmans, Wilde and Bely, Alberta.

35. Downey, K. B. (1998). Perverse Midrashim: Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’, Andre Gide’s ‘Saul’, and three hundred years’ censorship of Biblical drama, Texas (Dallas).

36. Doylen, M. R. (1998). Homosexual askesis: representations of self-fashioning in the writings of Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and John Addington Symonds, California (Santa Cruz).

37. Drake, A. J. (1997). ‘Bully boy with no glass eye’: Oscar Wilde as socialist, California (Irvine).

38. Drorbaugh, E. T. (2002). Queer adaptations of classic plays and the precipitate of change [Wilde], New York University.

39. Duckler, G. (2005). On the representation of infantile sense-making processes and the art of characterization: archaic thought and its history in the works of Stevenson, Hardy and Wilde, Chicago.

40. Eltis, S. A. (1994). Anarchism, feminism and Socialism in the plays of Oscar Wilde, Oxford.

41. Emilsson, W. (1998). Epicurean aestheticism: De Quincey, Pater, Wilde, Stoppard, British Columbia.

42. Erickson, L. M. (1996). Odd women: late Victorian fiction and the work of female desire [Wilde], Michigan.

43. Fang, P. (1999). The aesthetics of self-fashioning: Pater, Wilde, and Yeats, University of Pennsylvania

44. Farrell, M. J. (1999). The rhetoric of silence [Wilde], McGill.

45. Flynn, D. E. (1999). Modern authors, well-dressed women: assembling a writing self [Joyce, Wilde], California (Berkeley).

46. Fortunato, P. L. (2004). ‘Lady Windermere’s fan’: modernist aesthetics meets the aesthetics of fashion [Wilde], Illinois (Chicago).

47. Fox, P. W. (2000). The pleasure that abideth for a moment, the sorrow that endureth for ever: a decadent aesthetic [Wilde], Georgia.

48. Frankel, N. R. (1994). Oscar Wilde’s decorated books, Virginia.

49. Freeman, C. (1993). Desiring men: sexual politics and anxiety in literary modernism [Wilde], Vanderbilt.

50. Garelick, R. K. (1992). Women onstage: the representation of women’s performance in the fin de siècle [Wilde], Yale.

51. Gentz, R. (1994). Das erzahlerische Werk Oscar Wildes, Essen.

52. Glick, E. F. (2001). Modern love: queer subjects and the contradictions of modernity [Wilde], Brown.

53. Gold, B. J. (1995). Reproducing sex: procreative technologies and alternative erotics in late Victorian fiction [Stoker, Wilde], Chicago.

54. Goldman, J. E. (2005). The modernist author in the age of celebrity [Wilde, Joyce], Brown.

55. Goodman, L. F. (1994). Oscar Wilde’s literature: masking narcissistic anxiety, Chicago.

56. Guenette, M. D. (1993). Speak low: towards a theory of the non-discourse of male homosexuality in Wilde, Proust and beyond, Columbia.

57. Guzynski, E. A. (1997). ‘Maimed, marred, and incomplete’: aesthetics, masochism, and the language of suffering in Swinburne and Wilde, Cornell.

58. Hagenguth, K. (1996). Neopaganismus und Christentum in der Viktorianischen Literatur unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der minor authors [AE, G. Moore, Wilde, Yeats], Bonn.

59. Hamilton, L. K. (1998). Myths of recognizability: signifying the body in the Nineteenth Century novel [Wilde],

60. Hannon, P. M. (1990). Self and form in the writings of Oscar Wilde, Rutgers.

61. Hanson, E. (1994). Decadence and Catholicism [Wilde], Princeton.

62. Harris, S. T. (2004). Decadent aristocracies in Nineteenth Century British literature [Wilde], Nebraska.

63. Hartwig, H. A. (2002). The performative turn in Twentieth Century poetry [Wilde, Yeats], SUNY (Buffalo).

64. Hegglund, J. R. (1997). Empire’s inward turn: the idea of home in the imperial city, 1885-1935 [Wilde], California (Santa Barbara).

65. Himes, A. (2000). The English Decadents in the music hall: taking pleasure sadly [Wilde], Nebraska.

66. Hoad, N. W. (1998). Wild(e) men and savages: the homosexual and the primitive in Darwin, Wilde and Freud, Columbia

67. Hope, T. J. (1995). Articulating the social body: psychoanalysis, sexual difference, and queer sexualities [Wilde],Cornell.

68. Horan, P. M. (1995). The importance of being paradoxical: a study of maternal presence in the works of Oscar Wilde, Drew.

69. Howard, G. L. (1999). The odd men: masculinity and economics in British literature, 1862-1907 [Wilde], Tufts.

70. Hurvitz, T. J. (2002). Factually speaking: the rhetoric of science and the formation of subjects in Victorian writing [Wilde], California (Riverside).

71. Ivory, Y. M. (2001). Inverting the Renaissance, fashioning the self: Thomas Mann, Oscar Wilde, and fin-de-siècle sexual dissidence, California (Los Angeles).

72. Jones-Renger, J. J. (1999). Reading at their peril: dangerous entertainment from Wilkie Collins to Mae West [Wilde], Ohio State.

73. Jung, J. A. (1999). The diva at the fin-de-siècle [G. Moore, Shaw, Wilde], California (Los Angeles).

74. Kareno, E. (1996). Sherlock’s pharmacy: drugs in detective stories, 1860s to 1890s [Wilde], Stirling.

75. Kavka, M. (1995). Woman entombed: male hysteria in the late Nineteenth Century [Stoker, Wilde], Cornell.

76. Kaye, R. A. (1996). Artful suspensions: flirtation and the novel [Wilde], Princeton.

77. Keats, P. H. (1994). G. K. Chesterton and the Victorians: dialogue, dialectic, and synthesis [Shaw, Wilde], Catholic University of America.

78. Killeen, J. (2001). Religion, the nation and Oscar Wilde, NUI (Dublin).

79. Kinoshita, Y. (1997). Art and society: a consideration of the relationship between aesthetic theories and social commitment with reference to Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde, London (Queen Mary).

80. Kinsella, P. F. (2002). ‘We must return to the voice’: oral values and traditions in the works of Oscar Wilde [Yeats, J.P. Mahaffy], British Columbia.

81. Kischuck, J. C. (1997). Oscar Wilde’s imitation of suffering, Toronto.

82. Knox, M. G. (1992). Oscar Wilde: ‘a long and lovely suicide’, Columbia.

83. Kohlmayer, R. (1993). Oscar Wilde in Deutschland und Osterreich: Untersuchungen zur Rezeption der Komodien und zur Theorie der Buhnenubersetzung, Mainz.

84. Kolesnik, S. (1972). Oscar Wilde’s prose, Moscow.

85. Koos, L. R. (1990). Decadence: a literature of travesty [Wilde], Yale.

86. Kopelson, K. R. (1991). Love’s litany: the writing of modern homoerotics [Wilde], Brown.

87. Koritz, A. E. (1988). Gendering bodies, performing art: theatrical dancing and the performance aesthetics of Wilde, Shaw, and Yeats, North Carolina.

88. Krämer, L. (2002). Oscar Wilde in Roman, Drama und Film: eine medienkomparatische Analyse fiktionaler Biographien, Regensburg.

89. Ksinan, C. (1996). Paths to nowhere: the utopian vision of Oscar Wilde, NUI (Dublin).

90. Kuzmanovic, D. (2003). Seduction rhetoric, masculinity, and homoeroticism in Wilde, Gide, Stoker, and Forster, Rice.

91. Lambertus, B. J. G. (1990). Some critical theories in selected works by Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde, Aberdeen.

92. Laroche, R. (1997). Meeting in a crowded room: the English renaissance love sonnet and the formation of the literary critic [Wilde], Yale.

93. Latham, S. P. (2000). Snobs, mobs, and celebrities: the modernist novel in the cultural marketplace [Wilde, Joyce], Brown.

94. Lehner, D. J. (1993). The poet as liar [Swift, Wilde], CUNY.

95. Lennon, J. A. (2000). The Celt and the Oriental: the narratives of Irish Orientalism [Cousins, T. Moore, Stephens, Yeats], Connecticut.

96. Lesjak, C. J. (1996). Industrial labors/modern pleasures: labor and pleasure in the Nineteenth Century literature of Britain’s age of empire [Wilde], Duke.

97. Levine, C. E. (1996). The collapse of realism: time, knowledge, and representation in Victorian narrative [Wilde], London (Birkbeck).

98. Liou, L.-y. (1993). The sexual politics of Oscar Wilde, Radclyffe Hall, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, Texas.

99. Logan, K. L. (1998). The song of the nightingale: form and fiction in Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales, Florida State.

100. Lyke, P. P. (1998). A rhetorical critique of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales, Texas Woman’s.

101. Malton, S. A. (2004). False economies: forgery and other illegitimate issue, 1837-1895 [Wilde], Toronto.

102. Mamoon, S. H. (1996). Flowers of androgyny: the garden of Salome in fin-de-siècle and literature [Wilde], Indiana.

103. Marcovitch, H. J. (2002). The art of the pose: Oscar Wilde’s theory of persona, Florida.

104. Marez, C. F. (1993). Race, drugs and fin-de-siècle formations of European culture [Joyce, Wilde], California (Berkeley).

105. McDougall, K. M. (1995). Sexuality and creativity in the 1890s: economy of self in the social organism [Shaw, Wilde], Toronto.

106. McWeeny, G. C. (2003). The comfort of strangers: community, modernity, and Victorian literature [Wilde], Princeton.

107. Mesick, G. L. (1996). Fatality of language: wit in British literature since the Renaissance [Wilde], Harvard.

108. Meyer, M. (1993). The Wild(e) body: camp theory, camp performance, Northwestern.

109. Navarette, S. J. (1989). The physiology of fear: decadent style and the fin de siècle literature of horror [Wilde], Michigan

110. Navarre, J. M. (1995). The publishing history of Aubrey Beardsley’s compositions for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’, Marquette.

111. Noon, G. (1995). An examination of some instances of heartless beauty in the work of Oscar Wilde, Glasgow.

112. Novak, D. A. (2002). Novel bodies: Fiction, photography, and the Victorian novel [Wilde], Princeton.

113. O’Brien, E. L. (2000). Crime and the criminal poetics of the Victorian era [Wilde], Connecticut.

114. O’Connor, M. (2001). No man’s tragedy: Oscar Wilde’s literary matrilineage, Claremont.

115. O’Hara, J. J. (2003). Undercover Irishness: espionage, empire, and identity in Irish literature, 1880-2000 [Wilde, Yeats, Stuart, Banville], North Carolina.

116. Ohi, K. J. H. (2001). Innocence and rapture: the erotics of childhhod in aestheticism [Wilde], Cornell.

117. Palmer, S. B. (1998). Relegated relations: the British aunt in the Nineteenth Century fiction [Wilde], California (Davis).

118. Pansing, D. W. (2004). Addicted subjects: crime, aesthetics, and British literature [Wilde], Brown.

119. Peever, A. (1994). Love’s brand new fired: Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnets’, Oscar Wilde, and the structure of Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, University of Miami.

120. Pippenger, M. E. (2002). Convicts, miners, and immigrants: ‘a pile of paradoxes’ and the legacy of Australian representations in Victorian fiction [Wilde], Indiana

121. Pireddu, N. (1996). Beautiful gifts, sublime sacrifices: the aestheticization of ethics in Wilde, Huysmans andD’Annunzio, California (Los Angeles).

122. Plummer, L. A. (1995). Witness for the persecution: reading the Wilde and Borden trials, Indiana.

123. Psomiades, K. A. (1990). Subtly of herself contemplative: women, poets, and British aestheticism [Wilde], Yale.

124. Punchard, T. K. (1999). Art, criticism, and the self: at play in the works of Oscar Wilde, British Columbia.

125. Rado, L. (1994). A failed sublime: the modern androgyne imagination [Wilde], Michigan.

126. Ramsdell, C. M. (2000). The Japanese influence in Victorian art and literature [Wilde], Auburn.

127. Reddell, T. E. (1996). Image nations: books of imagination in spectacular culture since 1800 [Wilde], Colorado.

128. Ridenhour, J. M. (2004). In darkest London: the Gothic cityscape in the Victorian era [Stoker, Wilde], South Carolina.

129. Rindisbacher, H. J. (1989). The smell of books: a cultural-historical study of olfactory perception in literature [Wilde], Stanford.

130. Robbins, C. R. (1996). Decadence and sexual politics in three fin-de-siècle writers: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons and Vernon Lee, Warwick.

131. Robinson, B. J. (1990). Life’s elaborate masterpiece: Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic individualism, Virginia.

132. Roden, F. S. (1998). Same-sex desire in Victorian religious culture [Wilde], New York University.

133. Rohse, C. S. (1998). Manufactured maidens: metaphor and the grammar of identity in Nineteenth Century literature [Wilde], Harvard.

134. Roitinger, A. (1980). Oscar Wilde’s life as reflected in his correspondence and his autobiography, Salzburg.

135. Rowden, T. J. (1992). Bodies in collision: African-American fiction and the sexual politics of narrative [Wilde], Cornell.

136. Saint-Amour, P. K. (1997). Immense debtorship: originality, literary property, and deficit poetics in British letters, 1840-1940 [Joyce, Wilde], Stanford.

137. Salamensky, S. I. (1998). The Wilde word: talk as performance at the fin de siècle [Wilde], Harvard.

138. Satzinger, C. (1992). The French influences on Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘Salome’, Salzburg.

139. Severn, S. E. (2004). ‘Only connect’: the coming together of social classes in late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century British fiction [Wilde], Maryland

140. Shillock, L. T. (1995). Novel fascinations: literature, science, and visuality, 1865-1900 [Stoker, Wilde], Minnesota.

141. Smigiel, F. A. (1996). Metaphors of the market: postmodern commerce, postmodern art [Wilde], Delaware.

142. Smith-Bingham, R. D. (1997). Narrative and vision: constructing reality in late Victorian imperialist decadent and futuristic fiction [Wilde], London (University College).

143. Snape, A. T. (2003). The Wilde drama of Lytton Strachey’s biographies, New York University.

144. Stern, K. E. (1991). Feminine artifice and the fate of the man in makeup: Wilde, Mann and Proust on the problem of male metamorphosis, Princeton

145. Susser, E. A. (1997). Modern selves/romantic souls: the aestheticism of Pater, Wilde and Yeats, Virginia.

146. Teukolsky, R. K. (2004). The literate eye: Victorian art writing and the prose of modern aesthetics [Wilde], California (Berkeley).

147. Thomas, M. E. (1992). Repetition and difference in Nineteenth Century British narrative [Wilde], Illinois.

148. Tillotson, V. P. (2000). What’s in a name? Homosexuality, reputation and the sexual contract in England and America, 1895-1925 [Wilde], SUNY (Buffalo).

149. Tinkham, C. A. (2003). Picturing ‘La Regenta’: a spiral into decadence [Wilde], Nebraska.

150. Tongson, K. L. (2003). Ethical excess: stylizing difference in Victorian critical prose from Carlyle to Wilde, California (Berkeley).

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152. Upchurch, D. A. (1989). Irish Celtic folklore in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ [Wilde], Ball State.

153. Vala, M. A. C. (2004). The threatening object in late Nineteenth Century American and British fiction [Wilde], Michigan.

154. Voskuil, L. M. (1994). ‘Spectators of ourselves’: performing identities in Victorian culture [Wilde], Chicago.

155. Waldrep, F. S. (1995). An erotics of opportunities: Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of self-invention, Duke.

156. Walker, R. J. (1999). In the labyrinths of deceit: culture, modernity and disidentity in the Nineteenth Century [Stoker, Wilde], Plymouth.

157. Watson, G. F. (1989). Oscar Wilde and the function of criticism, Newcastle.

158. Weninger, S. (1999). The contagion of life: Rossetti, Pater, Wilde, and the aestheticist body, Ohio State.

159. Williams, M. K. (1994). ‘Leaping pulses and secret pleasures’: inscribing the wayward body in late Nineteenth Century fiction [Wilde], Washington University (St. Louis).

160. Williams, S. A. (1990). The perversion of representation: Naturalism and decadence in the late Nineteenth Century [Wilde], California (Berkeley).

161. Willoughby, G. B. (1987). The figure of Christ in the works of Oscar Wilde, Cape Town.

162. Wilson, G. F. (1991). Oscar Wilde and the function of criticism, Newcastle.

163. Winston, G. C. (2001). The place of Irish writing, 1886-1922 [John O’Donovan, Yeats, P. W. Joyce, Gregory, George Moore], Delaware.

164. Wood, A. J. P. (1989). Yeats and Shakespearean tragedy, Warwick.

165. Wood, L. E. (1992). Structures of dissent: Oscar Wilde’s legacy in the works of Joe Orton and Tom Stoppard, Yale.

166. Zhou, X. (1993). Beyond aestheticism: Oscar Wilde and consumer society, Lancaster.

167. Ziemer, G. H. (2000). Oscar Wilde and the aesthetic, sexual, and moral que(e)rying of identity, California (Irvine).

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