An Electronic Journal for the Exchange of Information

on Current Research, Publications and Productions

concerning

Oscar Wilde and His Worlds

Vol. IV

Nos. 4-9

 

Issues no 35-41: April-September 2007

 

EDITORIAL PAGE

 

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Jennifer Pohl : Reading Dorian Gray (Portrait of the Artist’s Sister)

Prívate collection, Oil on Canvas; © Jennifer Pohl, and reproduced here by kind permission of the artist.

 

Jennifer Pohl has a website at http://www.spaceabovethecouch.com and is represented by the Christina Parker Gallery, 7 Plank Road, St. John’s, NL, Canada A1E 1H3.  Web: http://www.christinaparkergallery.com.  Email:  @. 

 

 

 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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I.  The Editorial team

1.  The AHRC and the AHDS

10.  Awards

XIII.  GOING WILDE: Productions

II.  News from The Editor

2.  Vienna World Theatre

X.  BEING TALKED ABOUT: CALLS FOR PAPERS

XIV.  SHAVINGS

III. RICHARD ELLMANN TWENTY YEARS ON

3.  The Viennese Café

XI.  NOTES AND QUERIES

XV.  WEB FOOT NOTES

IV.  THE OSCHOLARS APPENDICES

3.  Reading and Literary Discussion Groups

1.  Oscar Wilde and Robert Service

XVI.  SOME SELL AND OTHERS BUY

V.  GUIDANCE FOR SUBMISSIONS

4.  Exhibitions

2.  Oscar Wilde at Oxford

XVII.  THE WILDE CALENDAR & CHRONOLOGY

VI.  NEWS FROM READERS

5.  Society News

3.  Dorian Gray

XVIII.  BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Charles Carpenter

The London Adventure

6.  Conferences, Seminars, Lectures

4.  Oscar Wilde and the Kinematograph

XIX.  AND I? MAY I SAY NOTHING?

VII. THE CRITIC AS CRITIC: Reviews

7.  Dublin Gay Theatre Festival

5.  Wilde on the Curriculum

1.  The Oscar Wilde Society

VIII.  PUBLICATIONS & PAPERS

8.  Museums & Galeries: Threats & Promises

6.  Whistler

2.  The Société Oscar Wilde

IX.  NEWS FROM ELSEWHERE

9.  Work in Progress

8.  Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain

3.  The Oscar Wilde Society of America

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4.  Other Wilde associations

 

 

 

1.       THE EDITORIAL TEAM

 

 

 

Up until now we have listed our team in this section.  Rather than continuing to repeat this endlessly, we have transferred the list to its own page, and this can be reached by clicking the Maréchal Niel: .

 

In our last issue we announced that our Editorial team had been joined by the leading Spanish Wilde scholar Dr Cristina Pascual Aransáez of the Camilo José Cela University, Madrid.  We can now add with great pleasure that we have been further strengthened by the appointments of Dr Tina O’Toole of the University of Limerick, Dr Kirsten MacLeod of the University of Alberta and Ms Dúnlaith Bird of the University of Oxford.  Although Wilde was not a feminist in any sense that we would recognise to-day, he did believe that women’s voices should be heard in intellectual debate, and this was his aspiration when he edited Woman’s World.  In keeping with our commitment to explore the avenues of exploration of the fin de siècle that open up from a central space given to Wilde, we are introducing a section called at least to begin with as a working title Yellow Aster, chiefly addressed to recording contemporary scholarship on the New Woman; and it will be Dr O’Toole’s project and that of her two assistants, Ms Yvonne O’Keeffe and Ms Louise Sheridan, to keep us informed about this.  It is a development that also honours Lady Wilde, Speranza, as a distinctive voice among nineteenth century women. 

 

Dr MacLeod joins us as Associate Editor for Canada, and we hope that we will thus be able to increase our knowledge of fin-de-siècle studies (as well as exhibitions and plays) taking place in that country. Thirdly, we have recruited Ms Bird as our Associate Editor for Oxford, where the presence of Oscar still looms.  Ms Bird, who is completing her doctorate at St Catherine’s College, is Convenor of the Oxford Fin-de-siècle seminars, and so very well placed to inform us about lectures, plays, societies, and other events taking place in the city and university.

 

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 his.

 

 

 

2.      News from the Editor

 

This is the third issue of THE OSCHOLARS to be originated on our new website, provided and constructed by Steven Halliwell of The Rivendale Press, a publishing house with a special interest in the fin-de-siècle. This website when complete will house all our publications and archives as a fully navigable, searchable and sophisticated resource.  Mr Halliwell joins Dr John Phelps of Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Mr Patrick O’Sullivan of the Irish Diaspora Net as one of the godfathers without whom THE OSCHOLARS could not have appeared on the web in any useful form.

 

Much of our archive has now been transferred to the new site, although it has been this work and the construction of the website as the home for our family of journals and webpages that has delayed the publication of this issue of THE OSCHOLARS, making a hold-all issue necessary.  We will continue to get as much up as quickly as possible.

Innovations

The first two of our planned special, once-off, special features, are in train.  The first of these goes on-line this month, October, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Richard Ellmann’s Oscar Wilde; the guest editor for this is Dr Michèle Mendelssohn of the University of Edinburgh.

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Our quarterly devoted to Vernon Lee (The Sibyl), under the editorship of Sophie Geoffroy (Université de la Réunion) is now fairly launched with two issues on line, and we have launched the first issue of Moorings, a quarterly devoted to George Moore and his circle, edited by Mark Llewellyn of the University of Liverpool.  These, with further issues of our French language sister publication rue des beaux-arts, edited by our Associate Editor for French Cultural Affairs Danielle Guérin, are now posted at www.oscholars.com and all future issues will appear there.