Wilde the IrishmanJerusha Hull McCormack While the contributors to this volume reach a consensus about the essential Irishness of Wilde, they subvert the comfortable categories in which Wilde generally has been placed and highlight the difficulties of evaluating him within a cultural context. The book sets Wilde within the tradition of other formidable Irish writers, including Joyce, Beckett, Shaw, and Yeats - a tradition from which he has been previously excluded - and restores him to his rightful place as an Irish writer of rare, if not uncomplicated, distinction. |
Contents
The Irish Wilde | 1 |
The Artist as Irishman | 9 |
Oscar Wilde and Irish Orality | 24 |
E F Benson Oscar Wilde and | 36 |
Impressions of an Irish Sphinx | 47 |
Oscar Wilde Jesse James Crime and Fame | 71 |
Oscar as Aesthete and Anarchist | 82 |
Wilde and Parnell | 95 |
PAULA MURPHY | 127 |
The Spirit of Play in De Profundis | 140 |
Ellmanns Wilde | 146 |
Acting Wilde | 152 |
Misogyny in the Work of Oscar Wilde | 158 |
The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde An Excerpt from a New Play | 166 |
Bás Wilde Mar a Tharla The Real Death of Oscar Wilde | 173 |
Selected Bibliography | 196 |
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