Acting Wilde - Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kerry Powell, Kerry (Miami University) Powell, Powell Kerry
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521516921
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51692-1
• Pagine: 216
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form