Book contents
- Oscar Wilde in Context
- Oscar Wilde in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- An appreciation
- Part I Placing Wilde
- Part II Aesthetic and critical contexts
- Chapter 7 Oscar Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes's Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- Chapter 8 William Morris and the House Beautiful
- Chapter 9 Wilde and British art
- Chapter 10 Aubrey Beardsley and Salome
- Chapter 11 Between two worlds and beyond them: John Ruskin and Walter Pater
- Chapter 12 Oscar Wilde, Henry James and the fate of aestheticism
- Chapter 13 Style at the fin de siècle: aestheticist, decadent, symbolist
- Chapter 14 Poisoned by a book: the lethal aura of The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Chapter 15 Rewriting farce
- Chapter 16 Bernard Shaw and ‘Hibernian drama’
- Chapter 17 Wilde, the fairy tales and the oral tradition
- Part III Cultural and historical contexts: ideas, iterations, innovations
- Part IV Reception and afterlives
- Further reading
- Index
Chapter 7 - Oscar Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes's Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol
from Part II - Aesthetic and critical contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2013
- Oscar Wilde in Context
- Oscar Wilde in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- An appreciation
- Part I Placing Wilde
- Part II Aesthetic and critical contexts
- Chapter 7 Oscar Wilde's poetic traditions: from Aristophanes's Clouds to The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- Chapter 8 William Morris and the House Beautiful
- Chapter 9 Wilde and British art
- Chapter 10 Aubrey Beardsley and Salome
- Chapter 11 Between two worlds and beyond them: John Ruskin and Walter Pater
- Chapter 12 Oscar Wilde, Henry James and the fate of aestheticism
- Chapter 13 Style at the fin de siècle: aestheticist, decadent, symbolist
- Chapter 14 Poisoned by a book: the lethal aura of The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Chapter 15 Rewriting farce
- Chapter 16 Bernard Shaw and ‘Hibernian drama’
- Chapter 17 Wilde, the fairy tales and the oral tradition
- Part III Cultural and historical contexts: ideas, iterations, innovations
- Part IV Reception and afterlives
- Further reading
- Index
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- Oscar Wilde in Context , pp. 73 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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