Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies

JOSEPH BRISTOW Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, USA FRANCESCA COPPA Associate Professor of English, Muhlenberg College, USA ANNE MARGARET DANIEL Teaches Literature and History at Princeton and the New School University, USA DENNIS DENISOFF Teaches at Ryerson University, USA NOREEN DOODY Lecturer in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College Dublin, UK RICHARD A. KAYE Associate Professor, Department of English, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA PATRICK R. O'MALLEY Assistant Professor of English, Georgetown University, USA ALLISON PEASE Associate Professor of English, John Jay College, City University of New York, USA D.C. ROSE Read Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford and Arts Administration at University College Dublin, UK MARGARET D. STETZ Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies, University of Delaware, USA PHILIP SMITH Teaches in the English Department, University of Pittsburgh, USA

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chronology; D.C.Rose Introduction; F.S.Roden Biographies; J.Bristow Wilde the Writer; A.M.Daniel Performance Theory and Performativity; F.Coppa Aestheticism and Aesthetic Theory; A.Pease Oscar Wilde, Commodity, Culture; D.Denisoff Philosophical Approaches to Interpretation of Oscar Wilde; P.Smith Religion; P.R.O'Malley Gay Studies/Queer Theory and Oscar Wilde; R.A.Kaye Oscar Wilde and Feminist Criticism; M.D.Stetz Oscar Wilde: Nation and Empire; N.Doody Selected Bibliography Index