List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Perface
Acknowledgements
Note on references
Bhronology
PartI:Context
1 Biogaphy and the art of lying
2 Wilde and the Victorians
3 Wilde and the Dandyism of the Senses
Part II:Wilde's works
4 Wilds as poet
5 Wilde the journalist
6 Wilde as critic and theorist
7 Wilde's fiction(s)
8 Distance,death and desire in Salome
9 Wilde's comedies of Society
10 The Importance of Being Earrnest
Part Ⅲ Themes and influences
11 A verdict of death:Oscar Wilde,actresses and victorian women
12 ‘A complex multiform creature’-Wilde's sexual inedtities
13 Wilde's plays:some lines of influence
14 Wilde on the stage
15 Oscar Wilde:the resurgence of lying
Select bibliography
general index
Index of works by Oscar Wilde