THE OSCHOLARS

GUIDE TO OUR PAGES

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Below you will find listed all the pages that form THE OSCHOLARS, with a short introduction to each. All the subjects listed here were once published as sections of our main Editorial page.

Their growth, and the increasing sophistication of the website, has enabled us to create separate pages for them. Scroll down or use the Table to jump quickly to any item, by using the silver button. From each item there is a link to the relevant page. If you do not need or want the introduction and wish to go directly to the page indicated, use the gold button. Readers may find it useful to start with the Editorial page.


May I Say Nothing? gogogold Editorial Team gogogold Mad, Scarlet Music gogogold Society News gogogold
Awards gogogold Special Issues gogogold Nocturne gogogold Some Sell and Others Buy gogogold
Being Talking About gogogold Exhibitions gogogold Publications gogogold Upstage gogogold
Bibliographies gogogold Going Wilde gogogold The Rack and The Press gogogold Wilde Societies gogogold
Conferences, Lectures gogogold Guidance for submissions gogogold Reading Groups gogogold Appendices gogogold
Editorial, News & Notes gogogold Library gogogold Shavings gogogold   gogogold

Do not omit to visit the other independent journals housed at www.oscholars.com, namely rue des beaux arts (Oscar Wilde, edited by Danielle Guérin), Moorings (George Moore, edited by Mark Llewellyn), and The Sibyl (Vernon Lee, edited by Sophie Geoffroy). These can be reached from our hub page.

 

Clicking takes you to the Table of Contents for this page; clicking takes you to the hub page for our website; clicking takes you to the home page of THE OSCHOLARS

 

 

1.     AND I? MAY I SAY NOTHING?

This section was originated for pieces too long for the Notes & Queries section but perhaps not quite substantial enough for articles in the print journals; or for ripostes. It may serve also as a notice board of early drafts, with comments invited; for papers given to conferences; for work that has been cut from articles elsewhere by unfeeling and purblind editors; or simply for work that we want to publish. Increasingly, we are giving space to articles submitted by our readers.

This section also contains occasional vanity publishing by the Editor.

To go to this month’s ‘And I? May I Say Nothing?’ click

See also the LIBRARY for articles republished from elsewhere.

We remind readers that original work may be submitted to The Wildean (see next item).



2.    Awards

We publish [and welcome] news of awards offered for any aspect of the period 1880-1914. Since January 2007 this section has been published on its own page.

To reach it, please click



3.    Being Talked About

This is our page of Calls for Papers for conferences or Articles for journals that we believe may be open to submissions on Wilde and the fin-de-siècle.

T o reach it, please click



4.     Bibliographies

Each month we publish a new bibliography or checklist of works on our period. These may be by one author (such as Gabriel Weisberg, J.P. Wearing, or Bruce Bashford), or a publisher, such as Mosher or The 1890s Society, or from one country (e.g. Spain, China, Romania).

A new bibliography is published each month, and older ones are updated.

There is a classified Table of Contents, which is reached by clicking  



5.    Conferences, Seminars, Lectures

As with the Calls for Papers we maintain this on its own page as a rolling list, adding and subtracting each issue. News of Conferences, Seminars and Lectures for inclusion should be sent to our Associate Editor responsible, Dr Florina Tufescu. @

The page can be reached by clicking



6.    Editorial, News and Notes

This is really the start page of THE OSCHOLARS, and in our early days contained all our information. Now it tells of innovations to our site and future plans, gives short news items, notes and queries, and items that are gradually being fattened up for transfer to their own page. We also signal here items that we wish particularly to draw to readers’ attention, even though these may also appear elsewhere on our site.



7.    Editorial Team

Until November 2007, we listed our team of Associate Editors each month on the Editorial page. Rather than continuing to repeat this endlessly, we transferred the list to its own page, adding some biographical details. Information that falls within the spheres of influence of each of our Associate Editors (news of publications, papers, conferences, productions, and requests for review copies etc) should be sent to the appropriate AE for processing and onward transmission to the Editor. The work of the AEs in undertaking this, as well as in obtaining new readers for THE OSCHOLARS is invaluable, and the compliments that are quite often directed to the Editor are properly theirs as well as (sometimes more than) his.
View our team by clicking



8.    Ellmann

In October 2007, under the editorship of Dr Michèle Mendelssohn of the University of Edinburgh, we published a re-assessment by thirteen scholars of Ellmann’s groundbreaking biography of Wilde, twenty years after it first appeared.

To read this, click  



9.    Exhibitions

We maintain a list of current exhibitions devoted to the visual artists of our period. page, click

To reach this page, click  



10.    Going Wilde

This page lists all the productions of Wilde’s plays, and about Wilde, that we can find. Contributions to this section of THE OSCHOLARS from anywhere in the world are very welcome indeed. We will do our best to arrange reviews, and volunteers are sought. Complimentary tickets can usually be provided.

We thank those readers who have drawn our attention to many of these productions.

To reach the page, click



11.     Guidance for Submissions

Guidance for Submissions and Correspondence can be consulted by clicking here.

Our correspondence section can be reached by clicking image022



12.     Library

In some ways the jewel in our crown, LIBRARY brings on-line for the first time articles that have appeared in learned journals that are for the most part inaccessible, or chapters from books that are out of print or difficult to find. Since September 2007, these have been republished at the rate of one a week and this will continue as long as supplies are available.

To enter the Library, click image022



13.    'Mad, Scarlet Music'

This section, devoted to Oscar Wilde and Music, is compiled by our Assistant Editor for Music, Tine Englebertof the Unversity of Ghent, Belgium, who welcomes contributions and observations. @

To go to the 'Mad, Scarlet Music' page, click



14.    Nocturne / Whistler

The names of Whistler and Wilde being inextricably linked, we devoted a good deal of space to Whistler in his centenary year of 2003. This monthly section developed its own page called Nocturne. We have been editing and collating the material, and Nocturne now forms a permanent supplement to THE OSCHOLARS, where any new information on the Whistler will be published, as well as exhibition and book reviews. This will be mentioned in future on our editorial page under Whistler, with a link to Nocturne, into which it will then be incorporated. Elaine Saniter from the University of Glasgow is now Associate Editor with responsibility for developing this page, and information should be sent in the first instance to her @

To see Nocturne, click Image of one of Whistler's butterfly signatures



15.    Publications

Every month we list new publications on Oscar Wilde and other writers and artists of the fin-de-siècle.

To see this page, click



16.   The Rack and The Press

Oscar Wilde once said that whereas once people were tortured on the Rack, in his time the torture was inflicted by the Press. This page of our website features a rack of print journals, from which we seek out articles that cover our concerns. We take no responsibility for any oppressiveness!



17.   Reading and Discussion Groups

These groups are monitored as charting a largely non-academic audience for the literature of our period. The discussion in most groups is usually lively, often informative, sometimes artless, and remains in the on-line archive of each group. It is interesting to see which books are chosen by more than one group, and taken together they form a sort of extra-university anti-canon. A subject for research one day, perhaps?

 

We are on the lookout for others and will investigate readers’ recommendations.
Our coverage, is on its own page, reached by clicking



18.    Shavings

Our supplement Shavings (news of productions and publications on George Bernard Shaw, and of the Shaw Societies) has its own subsite as part of www.oscholars.com.Information for Shavings may be sent to Barbara Pfeifer of the University of Vienna @, and without usurping the functions of the many excellent Shaw sources that already exist, we hope we can complement Shaw studies in our own way.

Reach Shavings by clicking



19.    Society News

We explore the world of societies that have been set up to promote interest in the figures or themes of the period. We do not wish this list to be anglocentric and welcome information about similar organisations in all countries, although French societies are chiefly listed in rue des beaux-arts. News of Societies and Associations are on their own page, and links to the Societies' own websites are included; new ones are added each month. All regularly updated. Theatre societies are now to be found in our new section . We welcome news from all Societies whose remit covers the period 1870-1900, or perhaps beyond: the long fin de siècle.

Societies described on our Society page are

To reach The Society Page, click



20.    Some Sell and Others Buy

Our guide to Wilde and other items for sale and related bookshops, has its own page

Booksellers may like to note that we are very happy to post news of items for sale between catalogue times, and of course we will carry any items for sale or wanted by readers. Our discussion group can also be used for immediate communication.





21.    Upstage

This is a section, first created in October 2007, where we brought together information on the theatre of the fin-de-siècle beyond Wilde and Shaw that had previously been dispersed among the sections Going Wilde, Publications, Conferences, Society News etc. The theatre of Wilde and Shaw continues to be covered in Going Wilde and Shavings, qqv.

upstage




22.    Wilde Societies

Again, this section originally formed part of our main editorial page. We bring together news of The Oscar Wilde Society in England, The Société Oscar Wilde in France and The Oscar Wilde Society of America; together with a note on other societies about which we can find no current information.





23.    THE OSCHOLARS APPENDICES

A number of Tables and other material gathered from different issues of THE OSCHOLARS are in the Appendices. A guide to these is below; or click here to go its cover page. Some are in the course of reconstruction.

The Appendices are: