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Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity

Cover of 'Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity', with the title in turquoise above a caricature of Wilde as Narcissus by James Edward Kelly.
Kathleen Riley, Alastair J.L. Blanshard, and Iarla Manny
2018
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Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity brings together scholars from across the disciplines of classics, English literature, theatre and performance studies, and the history of ideas to explore the varied and profound impact that Graeco-Roman antiquity had on Wilde's life and work. This wide-ranging collection covers all the major genres of his literary output; it includes new perspectives on his most celebrated and canonical texts and close analyses of unpublished material, revealing as never before the enduring breadth and depth of his love affair with the classics. 

Publisher
Oxford University Press
See the volume on the OUP website
  1. Kathleen Riley, ‘Introduction: Taking Parnassus to Piccadilly’ 
  1. Alastair J. L. Blanshard, ‘Mahaffy and Wilde: A Study in Provocation’ 
  1. Gideon Nisbet, ‘How Wilde Read John Addington Symonds's Studies of the Greek Poets’ 
  1. Iain Ross, '"Very fine & Semitic'': Wilde's Herodotus’ 
  1. Joseph Bristow, ‘Wilde's Abstractions: Notes on Literæ Humaniores, 1876-8’ 
  1. John Stokes, ‘Beyond Sculpture: Wilde's Responses to Greek Theatre in the 1880s’ 
  1. Clare L. E. Foster, ‘Wilde and the Emergence of Literary Drama, 1880-95' 
  1. Isobel Hurst, '"Tragedy in the disguise of mirth": Robert Browning, George Eliot, and Wilde’ 
  1. Kostas Boyiopoulos, ‘Death by Unrequited Eros: Salome, Hippolytus, and Wilde's Inversion of Tragedy’ 
  1. Leanne Grech, ‘Imagining Utopia: Oxford Hellenism and the Aesthetic Alternative’ 
  1. Kathleen Riley, '"All the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy": Wilde's Epistola and the Euripidean Christ’ 
  1. Kate Hext, ‘Burning with a "hard, gem-like flame": Heraclitus and Hedonism in Wilde's Writing’ 
  1. Stefano Evangelista, ‘Cosmopolitan Classicism: Wilde between Greece and France’ 
  1. Marylu Hill, ‘Wilde's New Republic: Platonic Questions in Dorian Gray’ 
  1. Nikolai Endres, ‘From Eros to Romosexuality: Love and Sex in Dorian Gray’ 
  1. Iarla Manny, ‘Oscar as (Ovid as) Orpheus: Misogyny and Pederasty in Dorian Gray and the Metamorphoses’ 
  1. Philip E. Smith II, ‘Wilde and Roman History’ 
  1. Shushma Malik, ‘The Criminal Emperors of Ancient Rome and Wilde's "true historical sense"'
  1. Serena S. Witzke, '"I knew I had a brother!": Fraternity and Identity in Plautus' Menaechmi and Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest’