Tame Passions of Wilde
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Abstention
Aestheticism
Aesthetics
Amanda Anderson
Aphorism
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Boredom
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Censorship
Criticism
Determination
Dowager
Elaine Showalter
Eloquence
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Erving Goffman
Euphemism
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Everyday life
Frankfurt School
Georg Simmel
Gilbert and Sullivan
Hannah Arendt
Homosexuality
Ibid (short story)
Immanuel Kant
Irony
Judith Butler
Literature
Melodrama
Michel Foucault
Modernity
Morality
Mr.
Optimism
Oscar Wilde
Oxford University Press
Parody
Pierre Bourdieu
Political economy
Postmodernism
Potentate
Princeton University Press
Promiscuity
Queer theory
Requirement
Richard Ellmann
Robert Mapplethorpe
Roland Barthes
Routledge
Self-love
Sensibility
Sexual attraction
Slavery
Symptom
Talcott Parsons
The Critic as Artist
The Decay of Lying
The dismal science
The Erotic
The History of Sexuality
The love that dare not speak its name
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Praise of Folly
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Society of the Spectacle
The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Various
Theory
Thought
Walter Pater
Wreath
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691113807
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 04 May 2003
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be translated from the realm of bodily necessity to the sphere of artistic freedom? Jeff Nunokawa traces the variety of social pressures that inspired Oscar Wilde's lifelong effort to concoct forms of desire that thrill without menacing us, as well as the alchemies by which he sought to do so. Assigning Wilde a place of honor in a heady company of thinkers drawn from the ranks of philosophy, sociology, economics, psychoanalysis, and contemporary queer theory--Kant, Marx, Simmel, Weber, Freud, Hannah Arendt, Albert O. Hirschman, Erving Goffman, Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, and, of course, Michel Foucault--this is the first book to recognize Wilde not only as a blatant symptom of a familiar understanding of modern sexuality, but also as a grand theorist of the subject in his own right. The result is a wholly original portrait of the artist as a social critic who, in the midst of his humor, labored to illuminate and amend the book of love.
Jeff Nunokawa is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University and the author of "The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security" and the "Victorian Novel" (Princeton).
