Chapter 4 ‘Wild thoughts and desire! Things I can’t tell you – words I can’t speak!’: The Drama of Identity in The Importance of Being Earnest and Guy Domville

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. List of Figures xii
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. Chapter 1 ‘I have asked Henry James not to bring his friend Oscar Wilde’: Daisy Miller, Washington Square and the Politics of Transatlantic Aestheticism 22
8. Chapter 2 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies and of remaking aestheticism 90
9. Chapter 3 The school of the future as well as the present: Wilde’s Impressions of James in Intentions and The Picture of Dorian Gray 127
10. Chapter 4 ‘Wild thoughts and desire! Things I can’t tell you – words I can’t speak!’: The Drama of Identity in The Importance of Being Earnest and Guy Domville 163
11. Chapter 5 Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde Trials and Interior Decoration 197
12. Chapter 6 ‘A nest of almost infant blackmailers’: The End of Innocence in ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and De Profundis 240
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 279
14. INDEX 298