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Beautiful Untrue Things
Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay "The Decay of Lying," this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde. The unique cultural moment of Wilde's early-twentieth-century afterlife, Gregory Mackie argues, afforded a space for marginal and transgressive forms of literary production that, ironically enough, Wilde himself would have endorsed. Beautiful Untrue Things recovers the careers of several forgers who successfully inhabited the persona of the Victorian era's most infamous homosexual and arguably its most successful dramatist. More broadly, this study tells a larger story about Oscar Wilde's continued cultural impact at a moment when ...
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Decadent Conservatism
British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of the art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this counter-cultural narrative has obscured the often reactionary and elitist tendencies of Decadent writers and artists of the fin de siècle. Decadent Conservatism offers the first in-depth examination of the intersection of Decadence and conservatism, arguing that underpinning both was the desire to find alternatives to liberal modernity. Both Decadents and conservatism turned to the past to uncover values and models of social organisa...
The Researcher
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Wilde in the Dream Factory
Wilde in the Dream Factory studies the influence of Oscar Wilde's work on American cinema and culture, with close readings of Wilde's works alongside screwball comedies and film noir of the 1930s and 40s.
Civil Antisemitism, Modernism, and British Culture, 1902–1939
This book addresses the development of 'civil' anti-Semitism in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and often critically neglected strand of anti-Jewish rhetoric that, prior to 1934, was essential to the legitimization of proto-fascist political and literary discourses, as well as stylistic practices within literary modernism.
Be it Ever So Humble
"This is a first-rate book that makes a striking and original argument about British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." -- Back cover
Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture
Gastro-Modernism ultimately shows how global literary modernisms engage with the food culture to express anxieties about modernity as much as to celebrate the excesses modern lifestyles produce.
How Can We Forgive Murderers?
As a student of A Course in Miracles, have you ever had difficult questions about its lofty, but sometimes inscrutable, teachings? Have you ever wondered how those teachings could be applied to your life? If so, this book can help, for it provides answers to 32 actual questions about Course theory, practice, and application. It will help you: . Get a clearer understanding of difficult theoretical issues . Apply the Course to down-to-earth issues, such as sex, money, depression, and addictions. Access the Holy Spirit's guidance . Deal constructively with negative emotions . Heal your relationships . Forgive the unforgivable Filled with detailed and insightful answers to perplexing questions, as well as practical tips for how to apply those answers, this is a book that every Course student and teacher will want to read. New students will find that it gives them a penetrating glimpse into the world and teachings of A Course in Miracles.
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