Stereoscopic London : plays of Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw and Arthur Wing Pinero in 1890s / by Kurtuluş, Gül

Am I a Snob? : Modernism and the Novel / by Latham, Sean

Table of Contents: “…The Importance of Being a Snob: Oscar Wilde's Modern Pretensions --…”
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Irish writers in the Irish American press, 1882-1964 / by Butler, Stephen G.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, An audience of some importance -- "Speranza's son," Irish America dismisses Oscar Wilde, 1882 -- The Celt in Irish America, William Butler Yeats's mission to the new island, 1887-1904 -- "No end of a row," The national theatre in the shadow of Synge, 1903-1909 -- "Weary of misrepresentation," Reconsidering the Irish American reception of the Abbey playwrights, 1911-1913 -- Meet the new gossoon, same as the old gossoon, The Abbey playwrights in Irish America, 1931-1939 -- Through a bowl of bitter tears, darkly, James Joyce and the Amerirish, 1917-1962 -- Receptions of an Irish rebel, Brendan Behan in Irish America, 1960-1964 -- Conclusion.…”

Irish writers in the Irish American press, 1882-1964 / by Butler, Stephen G.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- An audience of some importance -- "Speranza's son" -- Irish America dismisses Oscar Wilde, 1882 -- The celt in America -- William Butler Yeats's mission to the new island, 1887-1904 -- "No end of a row" -- The national theatre in the shadow of Synge, 1903-1909 -- "Weary of misrepresentation" -- Reconsidering the Irish American reception of the Abbey playwrights, 1911-1913 -- Meet the new gossoon, same as the old gossoon -- The Abbey playwrights in Irish America, 1931-1939 -- Through a bowl of bitter tears, darkly -- James Joyce and the Amerirish, 1917-1962 -- Receptions of an Irish rebel -- Brendan Behan in Irish America, 1960-1964 -- Conclusion.…”
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Gendering bodies/performing art : dance and literature in early-twentieth-century culture / by Koritz, Amy, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Moving violations : dance in the London music hall -- The dancer and woman's place : Maud Allan and Isadora Duncan -- The symbolist dancer : the performance aesthetics of Isadora Duncan, Arthur Symons, and Edward Gordon Craig -- Oscar Wilde's Salomé : rewriting the fatal woman -- Dance and gender in Yeats's early plays for dancers -- The aesthetics of control : G.B. …”
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Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914 / by Larson, Jil

Table of Contents: “…Ethics and the turn to narrative -- Victorian history and ethics: anxiety about agency at the fin-de-siècle -- Emotion, gender, and ethics in fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman writers -- When hope unblooms: chance and moral luck in A Laodicean, The mayor of Castorbridge, and Tess -- Oscar Wilde and Henry James: aestheticizing ethics -- Promises, lies, and ethical agency in Joseph Conrad's Under western eyes.…”
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Dead letters sent : queer literary transmission / by Ohi, Kevin, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"That Strange Mimicry of Life by the Living": Queer Reading in Oscar Wilde's "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." -- 6. Erotic Bafflement and the Lesson of Oscar Wilde: De Profundis -- 7. …”
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Better left unsaid : Victorian novels, Hays Code films, and the benefits of censorship / by Gilbert, Nora

Table of Contents: “…Thackeray and Preston Sturges -- For sophisticated eyes only : Jane Austen and George Cukor -- Beyond censorship : Charles Dickens and Frank Capra -- The thrill of the fight : Charlotte Brontë and Elia Kazan -- Postscript : Oscar Wilde and Mae West.…”
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Henry James and queer modernity / by Haralson, Eric L.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Indiscreet anatomies and protogay aesthetes in Roderick Hudson and The Europeans; 2 The elusive queerness of "queer comrades": The Tragic Muse and "The Author of 'Beltraffo' "; 3 The Turn of the Screw, or: The Dispossessed Hearts of Little Gentlemen; 4 Masculinity "changed and queer" in The Ambassadors; 5 Gratifying "the eternal boy in us all": Willa Cather, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde.…”
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Fateful beauty : aesthetic environments, juvenile development, and literature 1860-1960 / by Mao, Douglas, 1966-

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The Irish novel, 1800-1910 / by O'Brien, George, 1945-

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Decadent Catholicism and the making of modernism / by Lockerd, Martin

A Baedeker of decadence : charting a literary fashion, 1884-1927 / by Schoolfield, George C.

Table of Contents: “…France: Joris-Karl Huysmans -- Ireland: George Moore -- Italy: Gabriele D'Annunzio -- Sweden: August Strindberg -- England: Oscar Wilde -- Holland: Louis Couperus -- Norway: Arne Garborg -- Belgium: Georges Rodenbach -- Poland/Prussia: Stanisław Przybyszewski -- Finland: Karl August Tavaststjerna -- Ireland: Edith Oenone Somerville and Violet Martin Ross -- Austria: Leopold von Andrian, Rainer Maria Rilke -- Poland/Prussia: Stanisław Przybyszewski -- Wales: Arthur Machen -- England: Bram Stoker -- Portugal: José Maria Eça de Queirós -- Spain: Ramón María del Valle-Inclán -- Germany: Thomas Mann -- Sweden: Oscar Levertin, Gustaf af Geijerstam, Hjalmar Söderberg, Kjell Strömberg -- Denmark: Herman Bang -- Australia: Henry Handel Richardson -- The United States: James Gibbons Huneker -- Iceland: Halldór Kiljan Laxness.…”
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Essays for Richard Ellmann : omnium gatherum /

Table of Contents: “…Kelleher -- Richard Ellmann's Michaux : a publisher's recollections / James Laughlin -- Richard Ellmann and film collaboration / Seán Ó Mórdha -- The Oscar Wilde playing cards / Rosita Fanto -- Poems / Andonis Decavalles -- Poem / Brendan Kennelly -- "Oranges, apples, sugarsticks ..." …”
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The flirt's tragedy : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

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A.E. Housman : hero of the hidden life / by Vincent, Edgar

Fitting sentences : identity in nineteenth and twentieth-century prison narratives / by Haslam, Jason, 1971-

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Fateful Beauty : Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960. by Mao, Douglas

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Patriarchy in eclipse : the femme fatale and the new woman in American literature and culture, 1870-1920 / by Quinn, Patrick J., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…French background -- English background -- The early stages : Reizenstein, James, Hearn and Vedder -- Francis Saltus : poetry and the American femme fatale -- Oscar Wilde's American visit and William Dean Howells : shades of the new woman -- America's first decadent novelist : Edgar Saltus -- The new college woman and male intellectual supremacy -- The bohemian woman : a threat to male supremacy -- The poetry of Stuart Merrill : the lure of the femme fatale -- The femme fatale in American painting -- The Columbian exhibition of 1893 : the not so-white city -- The American stage : the strange case of Olga Nethersole -- The American opera -- Oscar Weininger's evolutionary argument -- Revolting American women -- Immoral fiction : bad girls make bad examples -- The Gibson girl, the bicycle, and bloomers -- The new woman's dilemma -- Hagar Revelly survives in a man's world -- The femme fatale as destroyer : Sylvester Viereck's poetry -- The femme fatale on the red velvet swing -- Thwarting the male genius -- Conclusion : The last American decadent novel.…”
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Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920 / by Thurschwell, Pamela, 1966-

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