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Afterword
Between July and November of 2014 volunteers gradually covered the moat around the Tower of London in 888,246 ceramic red poppies, one for every British and British colonial life lost in the First World War. F...
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Sexual Gnosticism: Male Procreation and ‘The Portrait of Mr W. H.’
In Sodom on the Thames, an exploration of late-Victorian male same-sex love through its legal manifestations leading up to the Wilde trials, Morris B. Kaplan dedicates considerable space to the homoerotic coterie...
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Love of the Impossible: Wilde’s Failed Queer Theory
Wilde’s collection of poems, generally known now as Poems 1881, constituted his first significant publication and his first resounding failure. Having been a conspicuous academic success, first at Trinity College...
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Priests of Keats: Wilfred Owen’s Pre-War Relationship to Wilde
In 1936, William Butler Yeats famously excluded the Great War combatant poets from his Oxford Book of Modern Verse. In the Introduction to that volume, he justified his decision as a matter of thematics and, more...
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Introduction
This book traces the development of Oscar Wilde’s thoughts and theories about the artistic importance of male same-sex relations and contends that these theories were passed on to Wilfred Owen, who in turn use...
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Shades of Green and Gray: Dual Meanings in Wilde’s Novel
In February of 1892 Wilde asked a number of his friends, including one of the actors, to wear a green carnation to the opening night of Lady Windermere’s Fan. When one of the chosen coterie, Graham Robertson, ask...
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Oscar and Sons: The Afterlife of Male Procreation
My previous chapter ended with the image of certain of Wilde’s texts as his misbehaving children: rambunctious little brats who refuse to demonstrate the theories that they are supposed to uphold. In this scen...
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OW/WH/WO: Wilfred Owen as Symbolic Son of Oscar Wilde
To retrace our steps momentarily to Chapter 4, Oscar Wilde had two literal sons. The youngest, Vyvyan, was only nine years old at the time of his father’s criminal conviction. Vyvyan’s autobiography describes ...
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Nora and Marthe
The first two chapters of this study—focusing on Nora Barnacle and Marthe Fleischmann, and Katharine and Charles Stewart Parnell—will provide openings, however brief, into crucial moments and key players for J...
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Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein: Commerce, Bestsellers, and the Jew
As a result of Edith Sitwell’s encouragement and enthusiasm, Gertrude Stein agreed to lecture at Cambridge and Oxford in June 1926. In the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, her delivery of “Composition as Explana...
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The “Keystone Public” and Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own, Time and Tide, and Cultural Hierarchies
On 23 October 1929, the eve of its publication, Virginia Woolf voiced concern over the reception of A Room of One’s Own. In her diary she worried that there was “a shrill feminine tone in it which [her] intimate ...
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The “Grand Lady of Literature ”: Virginia Woolf in Italy under Fascism
Even though Fascism was a harsh and patriarchal dictatorship notorious for its strong nationalism, raised barriers and censored press, there were forums in Fascist Italy where Italian and foreign literatures c...
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Appropriating Virginia Woolf for the New Humanism: Seward Collins and The Bookman, 1927–1933
Virginia Woolf’s frequent contributions to several American magazines, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s, form a side of her writing life influenced by financial concerns, since American magazines paid more ...
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Circulating Ideas and Selling Periodicals: Leonard Woolf, the Nation and Athenaeum, and Topical Debat
Throughout their careers as authors, journalists, and publishers, Virginia and Leonard Woolf wrote and published hundreds of books, reviews, articles, and essays that might be considered polemical, whether the...
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Virginia Woolf and the Middlebrow Market of the Familiar Essay
In “Middlebrow,” Virginia Woolf attacked the category of the “Broadbrow,” defended by J. B. Priestley in a talk on the BBC (Priestley, “High”).1 As Melba Cuddy-Keane has shown, Woolf posited her “democratic highb...
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Woolf Studies and Periodical Studies
How should one read a periodical? And, more to the point of this volume, how, and why, should one read Virginia Woolf in a periodical? I start by revising Woolf’s titular question “How Should One Read a Book?” fo...
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“Murdering an Aunt or Two”: Textual Practice and Narrative Form in Virginia Woolf’s Metropolitan Market
As evidence for the multiple connections between the commercial and intellectual freedoms provided by the Hogarth Press for its co-owner and leading author, consider a diary entry from September 1925: ...
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Translating Orlando in 1930s Fascist Italy: Virginia Woolf, Arnoldo Mondadori, and Alessandra Scalero
The first full translation of Orlando in Italian was published on 1 October 1933 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in the prestigious Medusa collection, a series aimed at presenting “the great novelists of every count...
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Don’t Judge a Cover by Its Woolf: Book Cover Images and the Marketing of Virginia Woolf’s Work
We all judge books by their covers. Browsing in unfamiliar stacks, we are attracted to a book by a name, title, aesthetic, or familiar image on its cover. When we encounter books we already know or have read, ...
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Beyond the Margins of Marriage in Exiles and Giacomo Joyce
The story of the Parnells casts the adulterous liaison as a site where the two understand the alterity of the other: “a relationship,” Levinas writes, “whose positivity comes from remoteness, from separation, ...
