[Posted 01.viii.2020]
- Rebecca Nesvet: Review of Oscar Wilde, A Literary Life by Kimberly Stern. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. No 2, summer 2020.
- Jude Wright: ‘Comus and Dorian: Milton’s Influence on Wilde’. Victorians 137 July 2020.
[Posted 02.i.2019]
1 The latest issue of The Journal of Stevenson Studies contains an article by Jean-Pierre Naugrette, Revisiting the ‘chambers of the brain’: Stevenson’s ‘A Chapter on Dreams’ between Poe and Wilde, with Sherlock Holmes, pp. 171-185.
The Journal of Stevenson Studies will henceforth be produced in an exclusively online format. Access to volume 14 of the Journal (and to all previous issues) is now available at http://robert-louis-stevenson.org/rls-journal/
2 The January edition of Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire includes a 16 page dossier on Oscar Wilde.
[Posted 01.xii.2018]
[Posted 23.xi.2018]
Librio has reprinted its edition of The Canterville Ghost / The Happy Prince / The Selfish Giant / The Devoted Friend / The Nightingale and the Rose [as ‘Le fantôme de Canterville et autres contes, Le Prince Heureux, le Géant égoïste, l’Ami devoué, Le Rossignol et la Rose’]. The translations are ancient ones by Jules Castier and Albert Savine.
[Posted 22.xi.2018]
Real Ireland has published its 2019 Irish Writers Calendar, with Wilde featured for March. Curiously, the only woman to appear is Lady Gregory (November).
[Posted 17.xi.2018]
Oscar Wilde The Season of Sorrow is a strip cartoon book of Wilde in prison, written, illustrated and published by Rob Marland.
[Posted 07.xi.2018]
Avant-Quart has republished the edition of The Ballad of Reading Gaol illustrated by Jean-Georges Cornélius, first published in 1927.
[Posted 28.x.2018]
Recently published:
Michael F. Davis, Petra Dierkes-Thrun (edd.): Wilde’s Other Worlds. Routledge
Noreen Doody: The Influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats, ‘An Echo of Someone Else’s Music’. Palgrave Macmillan
Michèle Mendelssohn: Making Oscar Wilde. Oxford University Press
Michael Patrick Gillespie:The Branding of Oscar Wilde. Routledge
Matthew Sturgis: Oscar: A Life. Head of Zeus
[Posted 13.xii.2017]
Angie Blumberg: ‘Strata of the Soul: The Queer Archaeologies of Vernon Lee and Oscar Wilde’. Victoriographies, Vol. 7, No. 3, November, 2017: 239-256.
[Posted 21.xi.2017]
James Hodgson: Oscar Wilde: Philosopher, Poet and Playwright. London: Greenwich Exchange
A study aimed at the student market.
[Posted 17 & 23.xi.2017]
The Oscar Wilde Society’s e-newsletter no 48 has been e-mailed to members of the Society. The Society’s print newsletter Intentions no 104 has also been posted to members.
[Posted 08.xi.2017]
Two new articles:
José Angel García Landa: Benefit of Hindsight: Polibio, Vico, Wilde y el emergentismo crítico [The Rise of Historical Criticism]. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15f7adbc8deba3f1
John Kirkaldy: Lipstick on your grave told a tale on you. Books Ireland 376 November/December 2017 p.17 [Père Lachaise]
[Posted 08.x.2017]
Gyles Brandreth : Oscar Wilde et l’assassin de la Tamise. Tr. Benoît Domis. Paris : Terra Nova August 2017
Nicholas Frankel: Oscar Wilde, the Unrepentant Years. Harvard University Press September 2017
Colleen Sattler: Oscar Wilde on life, love and money. New Holland Publishers 2017
Oscar Wilde (attributed): Teleny. Paris: La Musardine. New edition September 2017
[Posted 26.ix.2017]
Kathleen Riley, Alastair Blanshard & Iarla Manny (edd.): Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity.Oxford: Oxford University Press. November 2017
‘Dorian Gray’s Split Personality in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture ofDorian 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:
[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]
[Posted 09.xii.2016]
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.
[Posted 23.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).
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
« 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 XIXe siècle jusqu’au début du XXIe 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 XXe 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]
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- Xavier Giudicelli: Introduction
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- Joseph Bristow : Oscar Wilde, Ronald Gower, and the Shakespeare Monument
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- Michael Patrick Gillespie : The Branding of Oscar Wilde
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- Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada : Oscar Wilde’s Æsthetics in the Making: The Reviews of the Grosvenor Gallery exhibitions of 1877 and 1879
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- Nicholas Frankel : Portraiture in Oscar Wilde’s Fiction
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- Emily Eells : “La consolation des arts”: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Anglo-French Cultural Exchange
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- Shannon Wells-Lassagne : Picturing Dorian Gray: Portrait of an Adaptation
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- Marianne Drugeon : Æstheticism on the Wildean Stage
- Gilles Couderc: Setting Oscar Wilde to Music
Emer O’Sullivan: The Fall of the House of Wilde – Oscar Wilde and His Family. London: Bloomsbury Publishing 2016.
[Posted 12.vi.2016]
Philippe Corcuff: ‘Un art de vivre entre Karl Marx et Oscar Wilde’. Les Grands Dossiers des Sciences Humaines 43 June/July/August 2016 pp.50-1
[Posted 10.v.2016]
Intentions The Newsletter of the Oscar Wilde Society (no.98, May 2016) has now been sent out to members of the Society.
[Posted 08.v.2016]
Joey Franklin: ‘The Critic as Artist: Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic’, The Writer’s Chronicle, March/April 2016 pp.80-89.
[Posted 06.v.2016]
Sarah Balkin: ‘Realizing Personality in The Importance of Being Earnest’, Modern Drama, University of Toronto Press, Journals Division, vol. 59, issue 1
[Posted 19.ii.2016]
We are very pleased to announce the publication at the very end of 2015 of the monograph by our colleague Ilze Kačāne Oscar Wilde. Latvian “oscariana”, on the reception of Wilde’s creative writing in Latvia and Latvian literature. The book opening event took place last week (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9uNtgzvtuA). Although the book is written in Latvian, there is a summary in the English language as well as three supplements of Wilde’s translations into Latvian that can be used by anglophone readers.
[Posted 16.ii.2016]
A new French edition of Frank Harris’s Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde has been published by La Dernière Goutte. Please click here for details.
[Posted 08.ii.2016]
Oscar Wilde’s Scandalous Summer: the 1894 Worthing Holiday and Its Aftermath, by Antony Edmonds. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, is now republished with corrections in paperback. Please click here for our review of the hardback edition.
[Posted 06.ii.2016]
Robert Hichens: The Green Carnation. Translated into French by Patrick Marcel as ‘L’œillet vert’. Montélimar: Les Moutons Electriques 2016.
[Posted 06.ii.2016]
Our attention has been drawn to the following:
Launch of Romping through Dorian Gray goodies
Discover Dublin’s Wilde side. Our new set of goodies, Romping through Dorian Gray, includes a playful and immersive pocket guide to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and five fun colour illustrations as A4 prints. The fresh and contemporary prints, based on the illustrations from the pocket books include a quote from the original text and are saucy and fun with evocative titles.
Romping through Dorian Gray is the third in a series of pocket guides by At it Again!
Discover the truth behind Dorian Gray’s portrait in the attic. Meet the artist who talks about beauty, the Lord who gossips about everyone and the pretty boy who talks about himself. Find out what’s happening in the story, what to wear and places to visit to bring the novel and its Irish writer to life. Arm yourself with some insider titbits and essential quotes for your literary adventure.
Romping through Dorian Gray is bursting with illustrations and maps that bring the story to life. Use it to create your own romp through Dorian Gray. It’s also a fun way to explore Dublin, where Oscar Wilde lived for the first part of his life. Dip into it as an introduction if you are reading The Picture of Dorian Gray for the first time, or even if you are at it again!
The Romping through Dorian Gray pocket guide is available in stockists around Ireland or on Amazon UK. The full set of Dorian Gray goodies are available in Dublin in Jam Art Factory and Designist and on Etsy.
[Posted 29.i.2016]
The forty-eighth issue of The Wildean, January 2016, edited by Donald Mead, has reached us. It contains the following articles:
Laurence J.F. Wrenne: Oscar the Addict? Part 2 (1) pp.22-27
Darcy Sullivan: Dorian Gray in the Comics pp.28-48
Qi Chen: Wilde’s Society Comedies in the Chinese New Culture movement pp.49-66
Nikolai Endres: Wilde and Wagner pp.67-85
Thomas Wright: Tite Street Books at the Clark Library pp.86-95
Charles Nelson: Beautiful Untrue Things pp.96-103
John Stratford: Teleny – Wilde or not? pp.104-23
David Charles Rose: An Elusive Princess pp.125-8
Thomas Wright: Watercolour by the young Oscar Wilde pp.129-32
John Sloan: Review of Nicholas Frankel (ed.) The Importance of being Earnest pp.133-5
+ correspondence and notes on the contributors.
A table of contents of all issues of The Wildean is on line here.
[Posted 17.i.2016]
Eibhear Walshe: ‘Oscar Wilde’ in Brad Kent (ed.): George Bernard Shaw in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015, Chapter V.
[Posted 14.i.2016]
Joseph Bristow & Rebecca N. Mitchell: ‘On Oscar Wilde and Plagiarism’. The Public Domain Review. January 2016
http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/01/13/on-oscar-wilde-and-plagiarism/
