Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 ‘I Have Asked Henry James Not to Bring his Friend Oscar Wilde’: Daisy Miller, Washington Square and The Politics of Transatlantic Aestheticism
- 2 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies and of Remaking Aestheticism
- 3 The School of the Future as well as the Present: Wilde's Impressions of James in Intentions and The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 4 ‘Wild Thoughts and Desire! Things I Can't Tell You – Words I Can't Speak!’: The Drama of Identity in The Importance of Being Earnest and Guy Domville
- 5 Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde Trials and Interior Decoration
- 6 ‘A Nest of Almost Infant Blackmailers’: The End of Innocence in The Turn of the Screw and De Profundis
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 ‘I Have Asked Henry James Not to Bring his Friend Oscar Wilde’: Daisy Miller, Washington Square and The Politics of Transatlantic Aestheticism
- 2 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies and of Remaking Aestheticism
- 3 The School of the Future as well as the Present: Wilde's Impressions of James in Intentions and The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 4 ‘Wild Thoughts and Desire! Things I Can't Tell You – Words I Can't Speak!’: The Drama of Identity in The Importance of Being Earnest and Guy Domville
- 5 Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde Trials and Interior Decoration
- 6 ‘A Nest of Almost Infant Blackmailers’: The End of Innocence in The Turn of the Screw and De Profundis
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Henry James Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture , pp. v - viPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2007