Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Reception Timeline, Paul Barnaby (Edinburgh University Library, UK)
Performance Timeline, Michelle Paull (St. Mary's University College, UK)
Introduction: Oscar Wilde: European by Sympathy, Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford, UK)
1. Picturing His Exact Decadence: The British Reception of Oscar Wilde, Joseph Bristow (UCLA, USA)
2. Performance and Place: Oscar Wilde and the Irish National Interest, Noreen Doody (St. Patrick's College, Ireland)
3. The Artist as Aesthete: the French creation of Wilde, Richard Hibbitt (University of Leeds, UK)
4. Naturalizing Oscar Wilde as an homme de lettres: The French Reception of Dorian Gray and Salomé (1895-1922), Emily Eells (Université de Paris 10 - Nanterre, France)
5. André Gide's 'Hommage à Oscar Wilde' or 'The Tale of Judas', Victoria Reid (University of Glasgow, UK)
6. 'Astonishing in my Italian': Oscar Wilde's First Italian Editions, 1890-1952, Rita Severi (University of Verona, Italy)
7. 'Children of Pleasure': Oscar Wilde and Italian Decadence, Elisa Bizzotto (IUAV University, Venice, Italy)
8. The Strange Adventures of Oscar Wilde in Spain (1892-1912), Richard A. Cardwell (University of Nottingham, UK) 9. The Reception of Wilde's Works in Spain through Theatre Performances at the Turn of the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries, Marta Mateo (University of Oviedo, Spain)
10. Tragedy and the Apostle of Beauty: The Early Literary Reception of Oscar Wilde in Germany and Austria, Robert Vilain (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
11. Bunbury in Germany: Alive and Kicking, Rainer Kohlmayer and Lucia Krämer (University of Mainz and Leibniz University, Hanover, Germany)
12. When Critics Disagree, the Artist Survives. Oscar Wilde: An All-Time Favourite of the Viennese Stage in the Twentieth Century, Sandra Mayer (University of Vienna, Austria)
13. Composing Oscar: Settings of Wilde for the German stage, Chris Walton (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
14. From Continental Discourse to 'A breath from a better world': Oscar Wilde and Denmark, Lene Østermark-Johansen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
15. An Ideal Situation? The Importance of Oscar Wilde's Dramatic Work in Hungary, Mária Kurdi (University of Pécs, Hungary)
16. Oscar Wilde and the Czech Decadence, Zdenêk Beran (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
17. The 'Byron of Kipling's England': Oscar Wilde in Croatia, Irena Grubica (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
18. 'Next to Christ': Oscar Wilde in Russian Modernism, Evgenii Bershtein (Reed College, Oregon, USA)
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