Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
5. Contributors xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part One. Romanticism, Nihilism, and Revivalism: Oscar Wilde, 1874–1882
8. Chapter one. Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Romantic 43
9. Chapter two. Reconsidering Wilde’s Vera; or, The Nihilists 65
10. Chapter three. Misrecognising Wilde: Media and Performance on the American Tour of 1882 85
11. Part Two. Journalism: Oscar Wilde and The Woman’s World , 1887–1889
12. Chapter four. The Aesthetic Character of Oscar Wilde’s The Woman’s World 121
13. Chapter five. Oscar Wilde, Aesthetic Dress, and the Modern Woman: Or Why Sargent’s Portrait of Ellen Terry Appeared in The Woman’s World 143
14. Part Three. Faith, Belief, and Fiction: Oscar Wilde, 1889–1891
15. Chapter six. Sexual Gnosticism: The Procreative Code of “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” 169
16. Chapter seven. Reading and Re-reading: Wilde, Newman, and the Fiction of Belief 190
17. Chapter eight. Oscar Wilde’s Poetic Injustice in The Picture of Dorian Gray 212
18. Part Four. Translation, Performance, and Fashion: Oscar Wilde and the Stage
19. Chapter nine. Wilde’s French 233
20. Chapter ten. Fashioning the Modern Woman’s Sexual Turn from Salomé to Ulysses , 1892–1922 260
21. Chapter eleven. Oscar Wilde’s Anadoodlegram: A Genetic, Performative Reading of An Ideal Husband 289
22. Chapter tweleve. Transgressive Props; or Oscar Wilde’s E(a)rnest Signifier 315
23. Part Five. Modern Quests for Oscar Wilde
24. Chapter thirteen. Christopher Millard’s Mysterious Book: Oscar Wilde, Baron Corvo, and the Unwritten Quest 343
25. Index 367