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Acting Wilde - Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde

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Informationen zum Autor Kerry Powell is Professor and Chair of English at Miami University. Klappentext A revealing insight into Wilde's courtroom trials as they really happened! examining his deep immersion in late Victorian gender wars. Zusammenfassung Introducing important evidence from the recently discovered written record of Oscar Wilde's first courtroom trial! Acting Wilde explores Wilde's strategic dramatising of himself. The resulting portrait is of an Oscar Wilde who anticipates and even surpasses the insights of contemporary critical theory while laying the foundation for 'modern drama'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Acting Wilde; 1. Posing and dis-posing: Oscar Wilde in America and beyond; 2. Pure Wilde: feminism and masculinity in Lady Windermere's Fan, Salomé, and A Woman of No Importance; 3. Performance anxiety in An Ideal Husband; 4. Performativity and history: The Importance of Being Earnest; 5. The 'lost' transcript, sexual acting, and the meaning of Wilde's trials; 6. Prison performativity; Epilogue: Wilde and modern drama; Bibliography of manuscripts and printed sources.

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