Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Wilde Writings
7. 1. Wilde's World: Oscar Wilde and Theatrical Journalism in the 1880s 41
8. 2. "The Soul of Man under Socialism": A (Con)Textual History 59
9. Love-Letter, Spiritual Autobiography, or Prison Writing? 3. Identity and Value in De Profundis 86
10. 4. Wilde's Exquisite Pain 101
11. Part II. Wilde Stages 125
12. 5. Wilde Man: Masculinity, Feminism, and A Woman of No Importance 127
13. 6. Wilde, and How to Be Modern: or, Bags of Red Gold 147
14. 7. Master Wood's Profession: Wilde and the Subculture of Homosexual Blackmail in the Victorian Theatre 163
15. Part III. Wilde Contexts
16. 8. Wilde's The Woman's World and the Culture of Aesthetic Philanthropy 185
17. 9. The Origins of the Aesthetic Novel: Ouida, Wilde, and the Popular Romance 212
18. 10. Oscar Wilde, New Women, and the Rhetoric of Effeminacy 230
19. 11. Oscar Wilde and Jesus Christ 254
20. Part IV. Wilde Legacies
21. 12. Oscar Wilde's Legacies to Clarion and New Age Socialist Aestheticism 275
22. 13. Salome in China: The Aesthetic Art of Dying 295
23. Notes on the Contributors 317
24. Index 321