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Wilde's Other Worlds (Hardcover)
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Wilde's Other Worlds (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Taking its cue from Baudelaire's important essay "The Painter of
Modern Life," in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a
"man of the world," this collection of essays presents Oscar Wilde
as a "man of the world" who eschewed provincial concerns, cultural
conventions, and narrow national interests in favor of the wider
world and other worlds-both real and imaginary, geographical and
historical, physical and intellectual-which provided alternative
sites for exploration and experience, often including alternative
gender expression or sexual alterity. Wilde had an unlimited
curiosity and a cosmopolitan spirit of inquiry that traveled widely
across borders, ranging freely over space and time. He entered
easily and wholly into other countries, other cultures, other
national literatures, other periods, other mythologies, other
religions, other disciplines, and other modes of representation,
and was able to fully inhabit and navigate them, quickly
apprehending the conventions by which they operate. The fourteen
essays in this volume offer fresh critical-theoretical and
historical perspectives not just on key connections and aspects of
Wilde's oeuvre itself, but on the development of Wilde's remarkable
worldliness in dialogue with many other worlds: contemporary
developments in art, science and culture, as well as with other
national literatures and cultures. Perhaps as a direct result of
this cosmopolitan spirit, Wilde and Wilde's works have been taken
up across the globe, as the essays on Wilde's reception in India,
Japan and Hollywood illustrate. Many of the essays gathered here
are based on groundbreaking archival research, including some
never-seen-before illustrations. Together, they have the potential
to open up important new comparative, transnational, and historical
perspectives on Wilde that can shape and sharpen our future
understanding of his work and impact.
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