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‘Dorian Gray’s Split Personality in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray: Innocence, Immorality and Guilt’ by Miruna Miru has been published on Academia.

[Posted 12.v.2017]

Philip Smith‘s eagerly awaited edition of Oscar Wilde’s Historical Criticism Notebook has been published by Oxford University Press. 304pp. £75.00.

[Posted 09.v.2017]

Intentions, the newsletter (New Series no. 102), of the Oscar Wilde Society for May 2017, has been posted to members of the Society.

[Posted 08.iv.2017]

Danielle Guérin-Rose announces the publication of Rue des Beaux Arts no. 59:

Il s’oriente autour de plusieurs axes : l’Amérique, l’opéra, et Dorian Gray.

L’Amérique, Wilde s’y promène entre l’éditorial, “Devenir Oscar”, la bibliographie, une pièce de théâtre, “Mickle Street” qui traite de la rencontre entre Walt Whitman et Oscar Wilde, et le mot de la fin du “Signé Oscar Wilde”.

Du côté de l’opéra, la compositrice Mariana Ungureanu, nous fait l’honneur d’une interview (par Adrien Alix) pour présenter en avant-première son oeuvre “Dorian Gray, a quest for Eternal Youth”. Opéra toujours, avec l’article de Tine Englebert, qui nous parle de la conférence donnée au Petit Palais par Emmanuel Reibel sur le thème “Wilde et l’Opéra”.

Dorian n’est pas seulement le héros de l’opéra de Mariana Ungureanu, il est aussi l’objet de l’article de Claudine Sagaert : “Beauté et Laideur dans Le Portrait de Dorian Gray”

Enfin, une jeune artiste, Juliette Frelon, nous donne à contempler son chef d’œuvre enluminé qu’elle a consacré au “Géant Egoïste”. Ne le manquez pas.

[Posted 06.iv.2017]

We are pleased to announce the publication by Cambridge Scholars of Annette Magid (ed.): Quintessential Wilde: His Worldly Place,His Penetrating Philosophy and His Influential Aestheticism.

This contains the following:

Preface ………………………………………………………………………………………….. ix

Acknowledgements …………………………………………………………………….. xviii

PART I: HIS WORLDLY PLACE

Chapter One ……………………………………………………………………………………. 2

Oscar Wilde and the Passion of the Absurd

LINDA ARCHER

Chapter Two …………………………………………………………………………………. 16

“‘The Sordid Shame of the Great City’: Sexuality and Aesthetics in Oscar Wilde’s Representations of London”

OLIVER BUCKTON

Chapter Three ……………………………………………………………………………….. 41

The Soul of Man under Aestheticism: Wilde’s Continuing Impact on Queer Activism

DEJAN KUZMANOVIC

Chapter Four …………………………………………………………………………………. 64

Oscar Wilde’s Worldliness:Lecturing in America

ANNETTE M.MAGID

PART II:HIS PENETRATING PHILOSOPHY

Chapter Five …………………………………………………………………………………. 80

Wilde’s Stories: Lyrical and Universal Epitome of Adult Indifference to Children’s Suffering

SEMA EGE

Chapter Six …………………………………………………………………………………. 116 Celebrity, (Auto)biography and Failure in Wilde’s De Profundis

PIERPAOLO MARTINO

Chapter Seven ……………………………………………………………………………… 134

The Judas Kiss, Gross Indecency, Velvet Goldmine:The Postmodern Masks of Oscar Wilde

HEATHER MARCOVITCH

Chapter Eight ………………………………………………………………………………. 155 Reclaiming the Fisherman: Soul Searching and the Subversive in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales

ARIANA MASHILKER

Part III: HIS INFLUENTIAL AESTHETICISM

Chapter Nine ………………………………………………………………………………. 188

Two Mysterious Portraits: Gogol and Wilde on Art and Artists

ANASTASIA G. PEASE

Chapter Ten ………………………………………………………………………………… 204

“The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” and Oscar Wilde’s Revisionist History of Same-Sex Desire

FREDERICK D.KING

Chapter Eleven ……………………………………………………………………………. 228

Oscar Wilde Stands Uneasy: The Individual and Aestheticism

LINDA MAUREEN GORDON

Chapter Twelve …………………………………………………………………………… 256

Breathing New Life into Legends: Oscar Wilde and the Doctrines of the Aesthetic Movement

MOIRA DIMAURO-JACKSON

Contributors ………………………………………………………………………………… 283

Index………………………………………………………………………………………….. 286

[Posted 23.iii.2017]

We are pleased to announce the publication by Palgrave Macmillan of Michael Y. Bennett (ed.): Philosophy and Oscar Wilde. This contains the following essays:

Simon Reader: Wilde at Oxford: A Truce with Facts
Philip E. Smith: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of History
Bruce Bashford: ‘Even Things That Are True Can Be Proved’: Oscar Wilde on Argument
Jerusha McCormack: Oscar Wilde: As Daoist Sage
Melissa Knox: Homo Ludens: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy
S.I.Salamensky: The Figure of the Jew as Key to Oscar Wilde’s Aesth-Ethos
Michael Y.Bennett: Wilde Thoughts on Philosophical Reference in An Ideal Husband: “An Ideal” Versus “The Ideal” Husband
Katherine O’Keefe: Oscar Wilde and G. F. Hegel: The Wildean Fairy Tale as Postcolonial Dialectic

This book is the first collection of essays to discuss Oscar Wilde’s love and vast knowledge of philosophy. Over the past few decades, Oscar Wilde scholars have become increasingly aware of Wilde’s love and intimate knowledge of philosophy. Wilde’s “Oxford Notebooks” and his soon-to-be-published “Notebook on Philosophy” all point to Wilde not just as an aesthete, but also as a serious philosophical thinker.

The aim of this collection is not to make the statement that Wilde was a philosopher, or that his works were philosophical tracts. Rather, it provides a space to explore any and all linkages between Wilde’s works and philosophical thought. Addressing a broad spectrum of philosophical matter, from classical philology to Daoism, ethics to aestheticism, this collection enriches the literature on Wilde and philosophy alike.

[Posted 05.iii.2017]

Andrea Selleri has uploaded a paper on Wilde and Maria Edgeworth on ACADEMIA.

[Posted 02.ii.2017]

We are pleased to announce the publication of the fiftieth issue of The Wildean, the journal of the Oscar Wilde Society. The Contents are:

Angela Kingston : The Mystery of the Poet’s Heart [Isola Wilde]
Merlin Holland : The Posthumous Reputation of Oscar Wilde
Geoff Dibb : The Incomparable and Ingenious History of Mr Cyril Graham [The Portrait of Mr W.H.]
Laura Lee : The Mysterious Mr Schwabe (Part Two)
Richard Whittington-Egan : Titans of the Nineties
Matthew Sturgis : From Cleopatra to Camma
Paul Kinsella : Review of Emer O’Sullivan: The Fall of the House of Wilde
Matthew Sturgis : Review of L’Impertinent absolu
Simon Wilson : Review of Inside: Reading Gaol
Geoff Dibb : Review of Liverpool’s Wild(e) Poet [Richard Le Gallienne]

[Posted 07.i.2017]
We are pleased to announce that Rue des Beaux Arts no 58 is now on line at http://societeoscarwilde.fr/rue-des-beaux-arts-numero-58/.

[Posted 14.xii.2016]

We are pleased to announce the publication as an e-book available for reading on a Kindle machine the play The Brothers Wilde by Richard Woulfe.

[Posted 09.xii.2016]

We are pleased to announce belatedly the publication of ‘Sex, Lies, and Poetry: The Ballad of Reading Gaol‘ by Peter Robinson, Cambridge Quarterly 2015 44: 299-320

AbstractThis article dwells upon instances of untrue statements in Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol. The colour of the executed trooper’s coat is given as ‘scarlet’ when it was blue, and his wife’s murder is portrayed as taking place ‘in bed’, when it happened at the street door of their house, or in the road nearby. The possibility that ‘each man’ does not kill ‘the thing he loves’ is addressed to explore complexities in Wilde’s art related to aesthetic-politics in ‘The Decay of Lying’ and the discovery that, after a fashion, Wilde had been telling the truth all along.

[Posted 07.xii.2016]

We are pleased to announce the publication of Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900 by Dominic Janes, Chicago University Press.

Abstract

“I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad,” Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom—which erupted in laughter—accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a sodomite, and why was Queensbury’s horror greeted with such amusement? In Oscar Wilde Prefigured, Dominic Janes suggests that what divided the two sides in this case was not so much the question of whether Wilde was or was not a sodomite, but whether or not it mattered that people could appear to be sodomites. For many, intimations of sodomy were simply a part of the amusing spectacle of sophisticated life.

Oscar Wilde Prefigured is a study of the prehistory of this “queer moment” in 1895. Janes explores the complex ways in which men who desired sex with men in Britain had expressed such interests through clothing, style, and deportment since the mid-eighteenth century. He supplements the well-established narrative of the inscription of sodomitical acts into a homosexual label and identity at the end of the nineteenth century by teasing out the means by which same-sex desires could be signaled through visual display in Georgian and Victorian Britain. Wilde, it turns out, is not the starting point for public queer figuration. He is the pivot by which Georgian figures and twentieth-century camp stereotypes meet. Drawing on the mutually reinforcing phenomena of dandyism and caricature of alleged effeminates, Janes examines a wide range of images drawn from theater, fashion, and the popular press to reveal new dimensions of identity politics, gender performance, and queer culture.

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[Posted 23.ix.2016]

We are pleased to announce the publication of the graphic novel Oscar Wilde FabulLeux, éditions Hazan, Paris 2016 by Patrick Chambon. Préface de Merlin Holland, introduction de Pascal Aquien, professeur de littérature anglaise à la Sorbonne.

[Posted 08.ix.2016]

We are pleased to announce the publication of Jane Lady Wilde’s Vanitas and Other Poems [as ‘Vanitas et autres poèmes’] in a French version by Claude Beausoleil (Trois Rivières, Québec: Les Ecrits des Forges).

[Posted 03.ix.2016]

We are pleased to announce the publication of François Dupuigrenet-Desroussilles (ed. & tr.): Oscar Wilde en Amérique: Les Interviews. Paris: Bartillat

[Posted 01.ix.2016]

We are pleased to announce the publication of ‘“No Artist Has Ethical Sympathies”: Oscar Wilde, Aesthetics, and Moral Evolution’ by Caroline Sumpter, in Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 44, Number 3, 2016

[Posted 30.viii.2016]

We are pleased to announce the publication of Portraits de Dorian Gray, Le texte, le livre, l’image, by Xavier Giudicelli (Presses Universitaires de Paris – Sorbonne)

« Ce portrait en pied, inquiétant, d’un Dorian Gray hantera […] », écrit Stéphane Mallarmé à Oscar Wilde en avril 1891. The Picture of Dorian Gray, unique roman d’Oscar Wilde, conte l’histoire d’un portrait qui touche aux limites de la représentation. Le tableau s’inscrit dans le texte sous le mode de l’allusion, voire de l’absence. Toile trouée, centre vide autour duquel tout le roman s’articule, le portrait de Dorian Gray lance aux artistes un défi qu’ils ont été nombreux à tenter de relever.

Au croisement des études littéraires, de l’histoire du livre et des arts, cet ouvrage rend compte des métamorphoses d’un texte qui s’apparente à un mythe moderne et qui a connu une extraordinaire postérité. L’analyse de ces portraits de Dorian Gray permet également de retracer une histoire de la place de l’image dans le livre depuis la fin du XIX^e siècle jusqu’au début du XXI^e siècle, du livre de bibliophile des années 1920 au roman graphique contemporain. Peindre un portrait de Dorian Gray ne peut se faire que par références à des codes et des modèles esthétiques, offrant ainsi un aperçu de l’histoire des représentations au XX^e siècle, des volutes Art Nouveau aux films expressionnistes, des portraits mondains aux « écorchés » de Bacon.

À travers l’étude d’un cas à la fois atypique et exemplaire, Xavier Giudicelli mène une réflexion sur les rapports qui se tissent entre texte et image au sein du livre. Texte et iconographie s’associent afin de proposer de nouvelles perspectives sur The Picture of Dorian Gray : la réflexion s’incarne dans l’objet même que ce livre constitue.

[Posted 26.viii.2016]

A new Swedish edition of Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime is announced for 2017.

[Posted 22.viii.2016]

We are pleased to announce that ‘”Cultivated Idleness”: Carlyle, Wilde, and Victorian representations of creative labour’ by Rebecca N. Mitchell was published in Word & Image 17, June 2016.

[Posted 03.viii.2016]

The August edition of Intentions, the newsletter of the English Oscar Wilde Society edited by Vanessa Heron, has now been posted out to members of the Society. This contains news of the Society’s recent and forthcoming events and short articles and reviews.

[Posted 15.vii.2016]

We are pleased to announce two new editions of Wilde, The Portrait of Mr W.H. and The Truth of Masks [translated into French by Michel Borel as ‘Oscar Wilde et Shakespeare: Le Portrait de M. W.H et La Vérité des Masques’] and Letters to the Daily Chronicle and The Ballad of Reading Gaol [translated into French by Michel Borel as ‘Oscar Wilde et la prison’]. Both volumes are published by the Société des écrivains, St Denis.

[Posted 27.vi.2016]

We are pleased to announce that the latest edition (May 2016) of Etudes Anglaises is devoted to Oscar Wilde.

Xavier Giudicelli: Introduction
Joseph Bristow : Oscar Wilde, Ronald Gower, and the Shakespeare Monument
Michael Patrick Gillespie : The Branding of Oscar Wilde
Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada : Oscar Wilde’s Æsthetics in the Making: The Reviews of the Grosvenor Gallery exhibitions of 1877 and 1879
Nicholas Frankel : Portraiture in Oscar Wilde’s Fiction
Emily Eells : “La consolation des arts”: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Anglo-French Cultural Exchange
Shannon Wells-Lassagne : Picturing Dorian Gray: Portrait of an Adaptation
Marianne Drugeon : Æstheticism on the Wildean Stage
Gilles Couderc: Setting Oscar Wilde to Music

[Posted 27.vi.2016]

We are pleased to announce Rue des Beaux Arts no.56, the journal published by the Société Oscar Wilde, freely available on line by clicking here.

[Posted 23.vi.2016]