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Tables of Contents for The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
ix
 
Notes on contributors
xi
 
Preface
xv
 
Acknowledgements
xvii
 
Note on references
xviii
 
Chronology
xix
 
Part I: Context
Biography and the art of lying
3
15
Merlin Holland
Wilde and the Victorians
18
16
Regenia Gagnier
Wilde and the Dandyism of the Senses
34
23
Stephen Calloway
Part II: Wilde's works
Wilde as poet
57
12
Karl Beckson
Bobby Fong
Wilde the Journalist
69
11
John Stokes
Wilde as critic and theorist
80
16
Lawrence Danson
Wilde's fiction(s)
96
22
Jerusha Mccormack
Distance, death and desire in Salome
118
25
Joseph Donohue
Wilde's comedies of Society
143
18
Peter Raby
The Importance of Being Earnest
161
20
Russell Jackson
Part III: Themes and influences
A verdict of death: Oscar Wilde, actresses and Victorian women
181
14
Kerry Powell
`A complex multiform creature' -- Wilde's sexual identities
195
24
Joseph Bristow
Wilde's plays: some lines of influence
219
30
Richard Allen Cave
Wilde on the stage
249
27
Joel Kaplan
Oscar Wilde: the resurgence of lying
276
19
Declan Kiberd
Select bibliography
295
4
General index
299
7
Index of works
306
 
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