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Oscar Wilde

Myths, Miracles and Imitations

By: John Stokes

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Oscar Wilde

Myths, Miracles and Imitations

By: John Stokes

Stokes offers studies of Wilde's place in the Romantic tradition, and of his relationships with such legendary figures of the fin de siecle as Aubrey Beardsley, Alfred Jarry, and Arthur Symons. And always, as part of the process of historical inquiry, Stokes considers those who came after: humanitarian disciples who kept Wilde's memory sacred, performers in his plays, actors who impersonated the man himself.

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242

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Cambridge University Press

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0521475376

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9780521475372

Shaw and Other Playwrights

By: John Anthony Bertolini

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Shaw and Other Playwrights

By: John Anthony Bertolini

The early conclusion that Shaw was mainly a magpie following the trails of many thinkers has led to the further consequence of neglecting Shaw's relationship to other playwrights. This volume of SHAW explores Shaw's plays as inheritances and inspirations of dramatic art and also locates Shaw himself as a presence in the work of his contemporaries and successors. The volume concentrates on Shaw in relation to other modern British playwrights, notably Wilde, Bennett, Rattigan, the Court Theatre playwrights, and Shaw's successors from Coward to Stoppard. Gwyn Thomas's 1975 BBC play, The Ghost of Adelphi Terrace, puts Shaw and Barrie together on stage, and Shaw's 20 June 1937 Sunday Graphic obituary tribute to Barrie demonstrates Shaw's high regard for his contemporary and near neighbor. There are also essays on how Shaw came increasingly to resemble Strindberg as a dramatist, on the requirements of acting and directing Shaw alongside his contemporaries at the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, and on Heartbreak House as a complex dialogue with Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Strindberg. John R. Pfeiffer has prepared a special bibliography of sources relating to Shaw and other playwrights in addition to the Continuing Checklist of Shaviana, and Dan H. Laurence has provided Shaw's pronunciation guide for the more troublesome names of his stage characters. There are also reviews of four recent additions to Shavian scholarship. Contributors include John A. Bertolini, Fred D. Crawford, R. F. Dietrich, T. F. Evans, A. M. Gibbs, Leon H. Hugo, Christopher Newton, Sally Peters, John R. Pfeiffer, Evert Sprinchorn, and Stanley Weintraub.

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248

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Penn State Press

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027100908X

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9780271009087

The Annals of London

A Year-by-year Record of a Thousand Years of History

By: John Richardson

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The Annals of London

A Year-by-year Record of a Thousand Years of History

By: John Richardson

Year by year, from 1065 to the present, disasters, innovations, and everyday events are revealed to display the wide spectrum of London life. The sweep of the book is vast ands its details magnificent. Richardson's informative text is supported by an extraordinary and eclectic collection of 200 historical illustrations. 7 color maps.

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416

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Univ of California Press

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0520227956

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9780520227958

John Caspar Wild

Painter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-century Urban America

By: John William Reps

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John Caspar Wild

Painter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-century Urban America

By: John William Reps

John Caspar Wild, painter and lithographer, produced some of the earliest known depictions of urban America in the nineteenth century. This heavily illustrated book presents artist Wild's paintings and prints, and a catalogue raisonné identifies all of his known works"--Provided by publisher.

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184

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Missouri History Museum

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1883982553

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9781883982553

Henry James and the Art of Impressions

By: John Scholar

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Henry James and the Art of Impressions

By: John Scholar

Henry James criticized the impressionism that was revolutionizing French painting and fiction. He satirized the British aesthetic movement whose keystone was impressionist criticism. So why, time and again in important parts of his literary work, did James use the word 'impression'? Henry James and the Art of Impressions argues that James tried to wrest the impression from the impressionists and to recast it in his own art of the novel. Interdisciplinary in its range, philosophical and literary in its focus, the book shows the place of James's work within the wider cultural history of impressionism. It draws on painting, philosophy, psychology, literature, and critical theory to examine James's art criticism, early literary criticism, travel writing, reflections on his own fiction, and the three great novels of his major phase, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. It shows how the language of impressions enables James to represent the most intense moments of consciousness of his characters. It argues that the Jamesian impression is best understood as a family of related ideas bound together by James's attempt to reconcile the novel's value as a mimetic form with its value as a transformative creative activity.

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440

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Oxford University Press

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0192594931

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9780192594938

Paris Bride

A Modernist Life

By: John Schad

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Paris Bride

A Modernist Life

By: John Schad

In July 1905, in Paris, a young woman, a bride, becomes Marie Schad. In April 1984, in London, Marie Schad is declared to be no more--indeed, to never have been, and returns to France. Paris Bride pursues this no-woman in a wild attempt to glimpse her face in the modernist crowd. With increasing desperation the pages of Stephane Mallarmé, Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Louis Aragon, André and Walter Benjamin are all ransacked for traces of Marie. What is pieced precariously together is an experimental life--a properly modernist life, a life that, by its very obscurity, lives the obscure life of modernism itself.

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359

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punctum books

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1950192636

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9781950192632

Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle

By: John Charles Finzi

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Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle

By: John Charles Finzi

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

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527

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Univ of California Press

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0520350553

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9780520350557

Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique

By: John W Cairns

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Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique

By: John W Cairns

Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique deals with broad themes in Legal History, such as the development of Scots Law through the major legal thinkers of the Enlightenment, essays on Roman law and miscellaneous essays on the literary and philosophic

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458

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748682155

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9780748682157

Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games

Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

By: John Marshall

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Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games

Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

By: John Marshall

Covering a period of nearly 40 years’ work by the author this collection of essays in the Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and practitioner of early English plays to the understanding of how medieval plays and Robin Hood games of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were performed. It explores why, where, when, and how the plays happened, who took part, and who were the audiences. The insights are informed by a combination of research and the public presentation of surviving texts. The research included in the volume unites the early English experiences of religious and secular performance. This recognition challenges the dominant critical distinction of the past between the two and the consequent privileging of biblical and moral plays over secular entertainments. What further binds, rather than separates, the two is that the destination of funds raised by the different activities maintained the civic and parochial needs of the institutions upon which the people depended. This collection redefines the inclusive nature and common interests of the purposes that lay behind generically different undertakings. They shared an extraordinary investment of human and financial resources in the anticipation of a profit that was pious and practical. (CS1081).

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383

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Routledge

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0429765010

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9780429765018

Dublin

By: John Tomedi

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Dublin

By: John Tomedi

Most notably the home of James Joyce and the setting for his masterwork, Ulysses, Dublin is also the birthplace of George Bernard Shaw and was the childhood home of Oscar Wilde.

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214

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Infobase Publishing

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1438115547

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9781438115542

The Legend of Baby Doe

The Life and Times of the Silver Queen of the West

By: John Burke

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The Legend of Baby Doe

The Life and Times of the Silver Queen of the West

By: John Burke

In her pulchritudinous prime Baby Doe was called the Silver Queen of Colorado by journalists and "that shameless hussy" by the proper wives of the men who eyed her. Flirtatious, adventurous, ambitious, Elizabeth McCourt Doe gave everyone a lot to talk about when she met Horace Tabor, the Silver King of Leadville, in 1880. Three years later they were free to legalize their passion. Although thirty years separated them, they were well matched in romantic recklessness. If The Legend of Baby Doe is the lowdown on the high jinks of two public lives, it is also the story of a love that survived spectacularly good times and bad. Before bad times came, Baby and Horace went on a spending spree. They built an opulent opera house in Denver and bought an Italian-ate villa. Baby Doe went out bejeweled and ermined, and sat at home alone, snubbed by the social dragons. John Burke has written about the giddy rise of a bonanza king who dreamed of entering the White House with Baby Doe on his arm and about the disastrous fall they took together. Wiped out by unwise investments and the Panic of 1893, Tabor soon died, leaving Baby Doe and their two daughters penniless. Reportedly, his deathbed order was to "hang on to the Matchless," a played-out mine filled with water. She managed to do that for almost four decades, struggling heroically against loneliness, poverty, and heartbreak, and becoming one of the great legends of the American West.

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276

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803261039

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9780803261037

The Herbal Or General History of Plants

The Complete 1633 Edition as Revised and Enlarged by Thomas Johnson

By: John Gerard

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The Herbal Or General History of Plants

The Complete 1633 Edition as Revised and Enlarged by Thomas Johnson

By: John Gerard

Vast 16th-century compendium features Latin and English names, physical description, place and time of growth, scientific and folkloric details, and woodcut illustrations. This 1633 Gerard-Johnson edition comprises approximately 2,850 plants and 2,700 illustrations.

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Courier Dover Publications

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160660080X

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9781606600801

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Shaw and Other Playwrights

Shaw and Other Playwrights

The Annals of London

The Annals of London

John Caspar Wild

John Caspar Wild

Henry James and the Art of Impressions

Henry James and the Art of Impressions

Paris Bride

Paris Bride

Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle

Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle

Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique

Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique

Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games

Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games

Dublin

Dublin

The Legend of Baby Doe

The Legend of Baby Doe

The Herbal Or General History of Plants

The Herbal Or General History of Plants

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