THE OSCHOLARS LIBRARY

 

 

THE OSCHOLARS Library has been created to republish articles and essays from out-of-print collections and from journals to which perhaps only those with access to a university or national library can find. This is part of our task of ‘rescuing’ articles and essays that to-day are not generally accessible.  Even if in certain cases these have been superseded by or incorporated into later studies, they have a value in charting the development of what is now called the ‘Wilde industry’.  While doubting the value of the term, we can at least pay tribute to our predecessors’ industriousness.

 

They are reproduced with kind permission, where possible, and remain in the author’s copyright or that of the author’s estate when copyright is still running.  Any infringement of copyright by THE OSCHOLARS is unwitting and if our attention is drawn to it, will be corrected.

 

Date and place of original publication are given in each case, with some biographical information about the author. In some instances, the author has very kindly made alterations, corrections or additions. Some of the articles are in Portable Document Format (.pdf) and in these cases the biographical or other additional material is given on a separate page, which can be reached by clicking here.

For purposes of scholarly citation, readers are referred to the print version as the pagination of the originals cannot be followed except in the .pdf reproductions.

 

New articles will be added regularly, announced in THE OSCHOLARS and in our discussion forum.  We are also compiling a guide to articles that first appeared in print in learned journals and can now be found on line.  These will be listed on the page (linked below) called ‘In Other Bookcases’. Immediately below that is a link to the articles, essays and abstracts that we have published, and are not to be found elsewhere. Click here.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DE PROFUNDIS
Pascale Amiot Oscar Wilde De Profundis.
Arnold Bennett Suppressions in De Profundis.
DORIAN GRAY
Felicia Bonaparte The (Fai)Lure of the Aesthetic Ideal and the (Re)Formation of Art: The Medieval Paradigm that Frames The Picture of Dorian Gray
Donald R. Dickson ‘In a mirror that Mirrors the Soul’ : Masks and Mirrors in Dorian Gray.
Rita Felski The Counterdiscourse of the Feminine in Three Texts by Wilde, Huysmans, and Sacher-Masoch.
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Michael Patrick Gillespie 'What's in a Name?': Representing The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Michael Patrick Gillespie Ethics and Aesthetics in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Michael Patrick Gillespie Picturing Dorian Gray: Resistant Readings in Wilde's Novel
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Elana Gomel Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the (Un)Death of the Author
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Judith Halberstam Gothic Surface, Gothic Depth: The Subject of Secrecy in Stevenson and Wilde
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Isabel Fraile Murlanch Taking risks: A reading of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Charles C. Nickerson Vivian Grey and Dorian Gray.
Nancy Jane Tyson Caliban in a Glass: Autoscopic Vision in the Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Shelton Waldrep The Aesthetic Realism of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray
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Kenneth Womack ‘Withered, Wrinkled, and Loathsome of Visage’: Reading the Ethics of the Soul and the Late-Victorian Gothic in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
THE HAPPY PRINCE and other stories
Naomi Wood Paterian aesthetics, pederasty, and Oscar Wilde's fairy tales.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Patricia F Behrendt Oscar Wilde: Savage Paradox
Michael Patrick Gillespie From Beau Brummell to Lady Bracknell, Reviewing the Dandy in The Importance of being Earnest
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Michael Patrick Gillespie Oscar Wilde and the Fabrication of an Irish Identity
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Adrian Pablé The importance of re-naming Ernest?
Italian Translations of Oscar Wilde (Please note: this is a .pdf file)
Alexis Tadié ‘An age of surfaces’ : le langage de la comédie dans The Importance of Being Earnest d'Oscar Wilde.
INTENTIONS
Megan Becker-Leckrone Wilde's Appreciations: Plagiarism, Citation, and Aesthetic Communities.
Cristina Pascual Aransáez A Comparative Study of Two Extreme Versions of Subjectivist Criticism: Oscar Wilde’s Intentions and Anatole France’s La Vie Littéraire.
LA SAINTE COURTISANE
Rita Severi La Sainte Courtisane by Oscar Wilde. Dramatic Oxymoron and Saintly Pursuits.
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN
Charles Musser The Hidden and the Unspeakable: On Theatrical Culture, Oscar Wilde and Ernst Lubitsch’s Lady Windermere’s Fan
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POEMS
Anja Müller White Symphonies with Red Spots: Colour and the Representation of Women in Four Poems by Oscar Wilde.
SALOME
Pascale Amiot Salomé sur le Pont des Arts (1ere partie).
Pascale Amiot Salomé sur le Pont des Arts (2e partie).
Megan Becker-Leckrone Salome: The Fetishization of a Textual Corpus
Katherina Filips-Juswigg Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita and Oscar Wilde's Salomé: Motif-Patterns and Allusions
John Paul Riquelme Shalom / Solomon / Salome: Modernism & Wilde’s Æsthetic Politics.
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Helen Tookey 'The Fiend That Smites with a Look': the Monstrous/Menstruous Woman and the Danger of the Gaze in Oscar Wilde's Salomé.
Linda Pui-ling Wong The Initial Reception of Oscar Wilde in Modern China: With Special Reference to Salome.
Linda Zatlin Wilde, Beardsley, and the Making of Salome
THE SOUL OF MAN
Alwyn Edgar The Soul of Man under Socialism
WILDE'S CHARACTER
Ruth Robbins 'Judas always writes the biography’: The Many Lives of Oscar Wilde
WILDE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
Jeremy Barris Oscar Wilde's Artificiality and the Logic of Genuine Pluralism. (Please note: this is a pdf file)
Elisa Bizzotto I discepoli pateriani: Vernon Lee e Oscar Wilde.
Elisa Bizzotto The Legend of the Returning Gods in Pater and Wilde
Hugues Lebailly Mirages d'Eldorado : Les illusions perdues de Woolner, Whistler et Wilde
Regina Bollhalder Mayer L’amour des esthètes: Rachilde, Wilde et Gide
D.C. Rose B. de Sales La Terrière: Magdalen College and Oscar Wilde.
Richard Ruppel Joseph Conrad and the Ghost of Oscar Wilde.
James Swafford When Art and Morality Collide: From Rossetti to Wilde.
Rhys W. Williams 'Ich rechne vor allen anderen von jetzt ab vor allem auf Sie': the unpublished correspondence between Carl Sternheim and his English translator B. J. Morse
WILDE in the IMAGINATION of OUR TIMES
Gyles Brandreth Oscar Wilde and The Ring of Death
Edward Lam The Happy Prince (a play script).
Christopher S. Nassaar Earnest Revisited (extracts). (Please note: this is a .pdf file)
Marita Vermeulen Living with Uncertainty, an Interview with Floortje Zwigtman.
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WILDE and MUSIC
Erica Scettro Oscar Wilde's Musical References
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IDEAS and PHILOSOPHY
Megan Becker-Leckrone Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): Aesthetics and Criticism
Richard Dellamora Bataille/ Wilde: An Economic and Aesthetic Genealogy of the Gift
Christian Jambet Pour un Portrait de Sebastian Melmoth, Part I.
A.B. Walkley Sincerity and Style
Joachim Zelter Critical Fallibilism in Oscar Wilde: Karl Popper anticipated?
INFLUENCE and LEGACY
Megan Becker-Leckrone Misremembering Wilde: Oscar Wilde, His Critical Legacy, and His Critics
WILDE AND THE SEXUAL QUESTION
Emily Eells Oscar Wilde et le Genre Interartistique du Troisième Sexe.
Éibhear Walshe The First Gay Irishman? Ireland and the Wilde Trials.
OSCAR TRAVELS
Patricia Belier Oscar Wilde in Fredericton.
Samuel Lyndon Gladden ‘Sebastian Melmoth’: Wilde's Parisian Exile as the Spectacle of Sexual, Textual Revolution.
Patrick Sammon Oscar Wilde and Greece
NOT CLASSIFIED
Anna Gruskova Leichtsinniger Melancholiker, Ein Beitrag zur Typologie des mitteleuropäischen Dandys.
In Other Bookcases
Essays, articles and abstracts first published in THE OSCHOLARS as 'And I? May I Say Nothing?'

 


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