Wilde Between the Sheets

Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Wilde Between the Sheets: Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis argues that Oscar Wilde’s narrative strategies reveal a quick-witted, ingenious fighter—an active agent who tested boundaries and recognized the dangers of doing so, adopting essentialist or anti-essentialist strategies according to whatever shifting purpose he is writing with. David Walton challenges the one-dimensional view of Wilde as a tragic victim defeated by the penal system, arguing that Wilde constructed a self by weaving complex networks of time and paradoxical notions of space, along with a network of literary references and other intertexts. Walton goes on to claim that Wilde fashions a self while simultaneously being shaped by those he fashions, creating a critical dialogue which shows that, by constructing Wilde through interpretive acts, he has already been partially fashioned by Wilde himself.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-14
Mått:161 x 228 x 26 mm
Vikt:585 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:262
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793614216

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David Walton is senior lecturer and coordinator of cultural studies at the University of Murcia.

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In the first book-length study of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, David Walton has produced something that should be of serious interest to all students of literary and cultural studies: a wonderfully focused and theoretically rich, textual and historical analysis, that has much to teach us all.

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AcknowledgmentsPreface: The Accidental BookChapter One: The Wilde-Angle LensChapter Two: The Exposure of Private Parts: Ontology and the Fashioning of ‘De Profundis’Chapter Three: Sentencing Wilde; Wilde on Trial: the Gay ScienceChapter Four: Man of Letters: Trials, Politics and ‘Homotextuality’Chapter Five: Fashioning Wilde in the Space of the OtherChapter Six: An Author AuthoredChapter Seven: Doing Time: Wilde chronotopes and a Poetics of SpaceChapter Eight: Sentencing a Self in the Future: the Chronotope of Future TimeChapter Nine: Fashioning Wilde as Intertextual ManChapter Ten: From the multiplication of social voices to Christ on the Wilde sideChapter Eleven: Playtex(i)t: A DialogueReferencesAbout the Author