The Soul of Man: Oscar Wilde and Socialism

An ‘OSCHOLARS’ Special Issue

Spring 2010

 

CONTENTS

Anna Vaninskaya

Introduction

David Charles Rose

Foreword

The Soul of Man : Oscar Wilde and Socialism

Articles Section

Josephine M. Guy

‘Reflections on Editing The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Kristian Williams

‘The Roots of Wilde's Socialist Soul: Ibsen and Shaw, or Morris and Crane’

Ruth Kinna

‘The Limits of The Soul of Man Under Socialism’

Manuel Yang

‘Between Utopian Socialism and Incarcerated Proletarian Solidarity: Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism and the Libertarian Socialist Tradition’

Bruce Bashford

‘Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man: A Politics for Aestheticism?’

Tony W. Garland

‘The Paradoxical Vision of Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Socialism’

James Horrox

‘Socialism and the Soul of Man: Gustav Landauer’s Wilde Translations’

The Soul of Man : Oscar Wilde and Socialism

Reprints Section

David Charles Rose

‘Oscar Wilde: Socialite or Socialist?’ The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde During the Last 100 Years, eds. Uwe Böker, Richard Corballis, and Julie Hibbard (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002): 35-56.

David Goodway

‘Oscar Wilde’, Chapter 4 of Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006).  A second edition is to be published in spring 2011 by PM Press (of Oakland, CA).  Reprinted by permission of Liverpool University Press.

Regenia Gagnier

Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (Stanford: Leland Stanford Junior University, 1986): pp.19-34.  Copyright (c) by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University.  With the permission of Stanford University Press, www.sup.org.

Laurence Davis

Morris, Wilde, and Le Guin on Art, Work, and Utopia’, Utopian Studies 20.2 (2009): 213-48.  Reprinted by permission of the Utopian Studies Journal.

Matthew Beaumont

‘Reinterpreting Oscar Wilde's Concept of Utopia: The Soul of Man under Socialism,’ Utopian Studies 15.1 (2004): 13-29.  Reprinted by permission of the Utopian Studies Journal.

Emelie Jonsson

The Soul of Man under Socialism: Oscar Wilde, Art and Individualism’, Moderna Språk 103.1 (2009): 1-11.  Reprinted by permission of Moderna Språk, www.modernasprak.com.

D.R.O’Connor Lysaght

‘Oscar Wilde and the Human Soul Under Capitalism’.  Based on the author’s introduction to his edition of The Soul of Man Under Socialism (SD 2005)

Martin Page

‘Le Scandale du Plaisir’ (trans. David Charles Rose) – Preface to the Arléa edition (2004)

APPENDICES

Danielle Guérin

The Cover Story

David Charles Rose

Bibliography I – Editions

David Charles Rose

Bibliography II – Secondary Sources

 

Notes on Contributors

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