Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies

Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies

Frederick S. Roden 2005

E-Book: 316 English pages

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies offers new and exciting research on an author of enduring interest. Including ten chapters by major voices in current scholarship on the author, this volume provides the state of the field as well as original interpretations in a manner that is accessible to both the specialist and novice reader. Chapters interrogate questions of Wilde, Ireland and Empire, the relationship between gaay studies and queer theory and the place of feminist approaches. It is interdisciplinary, representing performance studies and literary studies, and also encompasses philosophical and religious perspectives on Wilde. This book provides a useful chronology, history of criticism and bibliography, and each chapter guides the reader towards an understanding of a specific methodology. Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies will be of interest to the advanced undergraduate and postgraduate student, the lecturer and the scholar – whoever craves a knowledge of the latest waves in Wilde criticism.

Review

‘…gives lucid and thorough accounts of the developments of Wilde criticism from Wilde’s day to our own, with particular and appropriate emphasis on the explosion of Wilde studies over the last decade…One comes away from this volume feeling enormously heartened by the sheer breadth and catholicity of Wilde studies and of late-nineteenth century studies across the board.’

—- Jonathan Freedman, Professor of English, University of Michigan, USA

‘…The ten chapters that make up this informative and stimulating volume, each written by an established specialist, go to the heart of current Wilde scholarship…An extensive chronology and select bibliography are included for good measure. Readers, viewers, Wildean devotees, students of literary tradition and popular culture alike will find here suitable amplification of the reasons Wilde stands apart from all other late-19th-century writers…Highly recommended.’

—-Choice

About the Author

FREDERICK S. RODEN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Same-Seex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture (Palgrave Macmillan). He teaches courses on Oscar Wilde, has published essays and reviews in Wilde studies, and in 1995 co-curated an exhibition at New York University commemorating the centenary of the trials.