Wilde Between the Sheets
Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 2020
262 pages
978-1-9787-7586-2 (ISBN)
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Wilde Between the Sheets: Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis argues that Oscar Wilde's narrative strategies reveal a quick-witted, ingenious fighter-an active agent who tested boundaries and recognized the dangers of doing so, adopting essentialist or anti-essentialist strategies according to whatever shifting purpose he is writing with. David Walton challenges the one-dimensional view of Wilde as a tragic victim defeated by the penal system, arguing that Wilde constructed a self by weaving complex networks of time and paradoxical notions of space, along with a network of literary references and other intertexts. Walton goes on to claim that Wilde fashions a self while simultaneously being shaped by those he fashions, creating a critical dialogue which shows that, by constructing Wilde through interpretive acts, he has already been partially fashioned by Wilde himself.
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David Walton is senior lecturer and coordinator of cultural studies at the University of Murcia.
Content
Acknowledgments
Preface: The Accidental Book
Chapter One: The Wilde-Angle Lens
Chapter Two: The Exposure of Private Parts: Ontology and the Fashioning of 'De Profundis'
Chapter Three: Sentencing Wilde; Wilde on Trial: the Gay Science
Chapter Four: Man of Letters: Trials, Politics and 'Homotextuality'
Chapter Five: Fashioning Wilde in the Space of the Other
Chapter Six: An Author Authored
Chapter Seven: Doing Time: Wilde chronotopes and a Poetics of Space
Chapter Eight: Sentencing a Self in the Future: the Chronotope of Future Time
Chapter Nine: Fashioning Wilde as Intertextual Man
Chapter Ten: From the multiplication of social voices to Christ on the Wilde side
Chapter Eleven: Playtex(i)t: A Dialogue
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About the Author
Preface: The Accidental Book
Chapter One: The Wilde-Angle Lens
Chapter Two: The Exposure of Private Parts: Ontology and the Fashioning of 'De Profundis'
Chapter Three: Sentencing Wilde; Wilde on Trial: the Gay Science
Chapter Four: Man of Letters: Trials, Politics and 'Homotextuality'
Chapter Five: Fashioning Wilde in the Space of the Other
Chapter Six: An Author Authored
Chapter Seven: Doing Time: Wilde chronotopes and a Poetics of Space
Chapter Eight: Sentencing a Self in the Future: the Chronotope of Future Time
Chapter Nine: Fashioning Wilde as Intertextual Man
Chapter Ten: From the multiplication of social voices to Christ on the Wilde side
Chapter Eleven: Playtex(i)t: A Dialogue
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About the Author
