Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture (Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures)

COPYRIGHT......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
List of Abbreviations......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 13
INTRODUCTION......Page 18
chapter 1 ‘I have asked Henry James not to bring his friend Oscar Wilde’: Daisy Miller, Washington Square and the Politics of Transatlantic Aestheticism......Page 39
chapter 2 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies and of remaking aestheticism......Page 107
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......Page 144
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......Page 180
chapter 5 Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde Trials and Interior Decoration......Page 214
chapter 6 ‘A nest of almost infant blackmailers’: The End of Innocence in ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and De Profundis......Page 257
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 296
INDEX......Page 315