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Frontmatter
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Michèle Mendelssohn
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- List of Abbreviations ix
- List of Figures xii
- INTRODUCTION 1
- 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
- Chapter 2 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies and of remaking aestheticism 90
- 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
- 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
- Chapter 5 Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde Trials and Interior Decoration 197
- Chapter 6 ‘A nest of almost infant blackmailers’: The End of Innocence in ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and De Profundis 240
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 279
- INDEX 298
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- List of Abbreviations ix
- List of Figures xii
- INTRODUCTION 1
- 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
- Chapter 2 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies and of remaking aestheticism 90
- 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
- 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
- Chapter 5 Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde Trials and Interior Decoration 197
- Chapter 6 ‘A nest of almost infant blackmailers’: The End of Innocence in ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and De Profundis 240
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 279
- INDEX 298