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Current Research, Publications and Productions
concerning
Oscar Wilde and His Worlds
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Vol. IV |
No. 10 |
Issue no 42:
October/November 2007
Oscar by Pietro Psaier
‘OSCAR. IN THE SERIES/OSCARIANA.
ARTIST PROOF. 68cm x 56cm. Commissioned for HOTEL PARIS, The last resting place
of Oscar Wilde, based on The Victorian H.M. PRISON PENTONVILLE, LONDON,
treadmills and the mind of WILDE, printed and etched upon handmade stock and
incorporating the body of BEARDSLEY only five examples have been published by
Studio Psaier, Signed.’
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I. News from the Editor; changes to our team;
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Oscar Wilde and the Kinematograph |
11. Oscar Wilde and Katherine Mansfield |
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II. In the LIBRARY |
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Wilde on the Curriculum |
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Vienna World Theatre |
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NEWS, NOTES & QUERIES |
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Work in Progress |
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The Viennese Café |
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Pietro
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A Wilde Find |
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2. Oscar Wilde goes to Sea |
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A Wilde Collection |
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3. Oscar Wilde : The Poetic
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Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain |
IV. THE CRITIC AS CRITIC: Reviews |
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NEVER SPEAKING
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I.
News from the Editor
Innovations
In our last issue we announced that our Editorial team had been
joined by of Dr Tina O’Toole of the
To see all our team click
The first of our two planned once-off special features went on-line
in October, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Richard
Ellmann’s Oscar Wilde, guest edited by Dr Michèle Mendelssohn of
the University of Edinburgh.
To see this, click
Work continues on the reconstruction of the website, with
improvements in accessibility and design, so that it becomes a fully-searchable
and easily navigated resource. This
involves less scrolling and more clicking, enabling us decrease the length of
pages. Various pages have been split up,
and new ones created. This is largely
the inspiration (and wholly the hard work) of our webmaster, Steven Halliwell.
Shortly to be introduced will be a
section devoted to the New Woman, that important phenomenon of the
fin-de-siècle. This not only denotes our
dedication to fin-de-siècle studies in general but is a special salute to Lady
Wilde, Constance Wilde, Dolly Wilde and Oscar’s own interest in giving women a
voice in the magazine he edited – without great distinction, it must sadly be
noted. Edited by Dr Tina O’Toole with the assistance of Lisa Sheridan and Yvonne
O’Keeffe, it will begin as a section within this page, but following
precedent will when ready migrate to its own page, and then perhaps become a
multi-page journal in its own right on our site. Its provisional title is The Yellow Aster.
Our quarterly devoted to Vernon Lee (The
Sibyl ), under the
editorship of Sophie Geoffroy (Université de la Réunion) is now fairly
launched with two issues on line, and we have launched the first issue of Moorings, a quarterly devoted to George Moore and his circle, edited by Mark
Llewellyn of the
Another special issue, to be published in Autumn 2008, is on Teleny. We believe it is high time that scholarship
on Teleny is brought together and the arguments about it properly
marshalled. This is being guest edited
by Professor John McRae of the University of Nottingham, whose edition
of Teleny was the first scholarly unexpurgated one published. Readers who would like to submit an article
discussing any aspect of Teleny should contact Professor McRae. @
A further special is planned for 2009, on Oscar Wilde’s
stories for children. Initial
expressions of interest in contributing can be sent to oscholars@gmail.com.
Taking advantage of the possibilities of the website, we have also introduced a page called NOTICEBOARD, serving all our journals, where we will happily publish short term announcements of publications, papers and other items of interest submitted by readers. This does not replace notice in any of the journals, but is intended to be of value between issues. NOTICEBOARD is at
Another new page, launched in
October 2007, is called 
. Here we gather the general theatre
information that was hitherto scattered through our different sections – click
its colophon to reach it. This is part
of our reconstruction, allowing THE OSCHOLARS itself to focus more narrowly on
things Oscarian. Similarly in the belief
that it makes for economy of effort coupled to impact of effect we have given
our monthly SOCIETY PAGE a permanent place: see
Discussion and announcements forum / Letters to the
Editor
Your editors discussed at length the form that this should
take: our old JISCmail service never functioned fully. We considered trying to revive it, or
creating a listserv as H-Fin-de-siècle, or a blog. While none of these are ruled out for the
future, it was eventually decided to set up a group with Yahoo, which despite
its unattractive name and often unattractive material, is familiar to most
people, and easy to operate and govern.
We have laid down fairly strict guidelines for postings, and we hope
that it will avoid acquiring some of the useless baggage that is a
characteristic of some of these groups.
The forum was set up for us and initially moderated by Colleen
Platt, a committed Wildëan and experienced moderator. Unfortunately pressure of other commitments
has led her to step down from the position of moderator, although we hope she
will resume this in the future. The task
is taken up by Dr Mark Llewellyn and myself. Our model is
We do urge all our readers to sign up for this, even if only to ensure they get regular news by this means. All (including the rules for submission) can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oscholarship. There is a short registration process, as there is for all such groups and lists. If you set your preferences either to digest or to individual e-mails, this will overcome one problem for us, for at the moment sending e-mails to all our subscribers is a very long business: we have to send to small groups of members, as there are limits on how many copies can send (Windows or Outlook), and on how many group mails one can send in 24 hours (gmail). Many mailboxes do not accept group mailings; others reject automatically what we write as spam, most rudely. All possible steps will be taken to exclude spam, advertisements for dubious services, and irrelevant postings. We will sprinkle its link here and there in our pages, where we think readers may (or should) be prompted to express a view. The icon is
II. THE
OSCHOLARS LIBRARY
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From time to time, we invite readers who have published articles on
Wilde in anthologies or journals that are not readily accessible outside
university libraries (and not always then) to republish them (amended if
desired) on THE OSCHOLARS website.
We have recently been putting
articles on-line at the rate of one a week, and are very happy with the
response that this has been meeting. We also intend republishing older
articles on Wilde from anthologies and festchriften,
made obsolete by the march of scholarship, but which may still have some
value in charting how he was viewed by earlier writers. These appear in a section called LIBRARY. Its logo, which can be clicked for access,
is
This will bring you to a Table of
Contents from which you can link to each article. There are also links to French language
articles similarly republished in rue des beaux-arts. Guidance for submissions is posted on
the LIBRARY page. Recently
posted to LIBRARY: ‘The Aesthetic Realism of Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray’ by Shelton Waldrep ‘“Judas always writes the biography”: The Many Lives of Oscar Wilde’ by Ruth Robbins ‘Wilde, Beardsley and the Making of Salome’ , by Linda Zatlin ‘The
(Fai)Lure of the Aesthetic Ideal and the (Re)Formation of Art: The Medieval
Paradigm that Frames The Picture of
Dorian Gray’ by Felicia Bonaparte. These articles
are the copyright to their authors, and thus usual rules for citation and
against further publication apply. New postings are announced on our
discussion forum
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III. FREQUENTING THE SOCIETY OF THE AGED AND WELL-INFORMED: NEWS, NOTES, QUERIES.
« Questions are never indiscreet.
Answers sometimes are. »
1.
Pietro Psaier
Our frontispiece this month is an image of Wilde by Pietro
Psaier (1836-2004). Born in Italy he
moved as a young man to Madrid and then to New York and while working as a
waiter in Greenwich Village, met Andy Warhol, with whom he had an affair, and joined Warhol’s studio ‘The Factory’, where
he produced layouts, silk-screens and joint works as wll as working as an
artist in his own right. He was drowned
when the Tsunami struck
2.
Oscar Wilde goes to Sea
Irish Ferries announce the
introduction in December on the Rosslare – France (
3. Oscar
Wilde : the Poetic Legacy
In our Spring
issue, to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Brendan Behan, we republished
his poem Oscar Wilde, in the
translation by Ulick O'Connor from Behan's Irish. Last month we republished the poem ‘Three
Demi-Gods’ by Robert Service. This month
we publish on a very different note Raymond Calvert’s ‘The Ballad of William
Bloat’, which we would describe as standing at the point where Robert Service
meets ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’. We
have again taken our courage in our hands as we do not know to whom we should
have applied for copyright permission.
Eventually, these verses will be published in an Appendix. It may be as well to explain that the
NOTE ADDED JULY 2009. We were very pleased when, in July 2009, we were contacted by Mr Peter Calvert, the son of the writer of this Ballad, with an authentic version and an explanatory letter. These can be found by clicking here.
'The Ballad of
William Bloat'
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1. In a mean abode
on the Lived a man
named William Bloat; And he had a
wife, the curse of his life, Who always got
his goat. 'Til one day at
dawn, with her nightdress on He slit her
pretty throat. |
2. With a razor
gash he settled her hash Oh never was
crime so quick But the steady
drip on the pillowslip Of her lifeblood
made him sick. And the pool of
gore on the bedroom floor Grew clotted and
cold and thick. |
3. Now he was right
glad he had done as he had As his wife lay
there so still But a sudden awe
of the mighty law Filled his heart
with an icy chill. So to finish the
fun so well begun He resolved
himself to kill. |
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4. He took the
sheet from his wife's cold feet And twisted it
into a rope And he hanged
himself from the pantry shelf, 'Twas an easy
end, let's hope. In the face of
death with his latest breath He said ‘To hell
with the Pope.’ |
5. Now the
strangest turn in this whole concern Is only just
beginning. He went to Hell,
but his wife got well And is still
alive and sinning. For the razor
blade was But the sheet
was |
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4.
Dorian Gray
Brett Kolles writes
I am a graduate student writing my Master's Essay on Oscar Wilde, with a focus on Lippincott's Monthly Magazine and its decision to print the first edition of Dorian Gray. DG was first run in the July, 1890 publication of Lippincott's. I have read several reports that state the periodical sold quite well but I have been at a lost to find verifiable proof of this. I am specifically looking for circulation numbers (print run), although I would also be interested in the number of actual subscribers Lippincott's had before and after DG release. I have been in contact with several libraries and universities but have as of yet received but moral support. To give a firm basis for my thesis, I would like to have monthly circulation numbers for the year 1890 for Lippincott's. Any information, or suggestions, would be greatly appreciated.
We will forward any replies to Mr Kolles.
5.
Oscar Wilde and the Kinematograph
Posters
This section, in
which we are displaying film posters, began in April 2003. After appearing here, these are posted on
their own page, called POSTERWALL, gradually building up a gallery that will
make the images more accessible than by searching the Internet. This can be found by clicking on the icon
This month’s
posters were found for us by Danielle Guérin.
6.
Wilde on the Curriculum
We are always
anxious to publicise the teaching of Wilde at both second and third
level, and welcome news of Wilde on curricula.
Similarly, news of the other subjects on whom we are publishing (Whistler,
Shaw, George Moore and Vernon Lee} is also welcome.
7.
Work in Progress
In December 2006 we published a list of fin-de-siècle
doctoral theses being undertaken at
8.
A Wilde Find
Tiffany Perala spotted this report
‘Rare book found in charity shop. A rare
first edition of Oscar Wilde's The
Importance of Being Earnest is given to a charity shop - in a handbag.’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/7052476.stm
9. A
Wilde Collection
There is no universal handbook or vade mecum to the various
Wilde Collections, and we plan to make a start here. Sometimes where a collection’s contents are
published in detail on-line we will simply give an URL; or we may be able to
give more details ourselves. We hope
then to be able to bring these together as a new Appendix.
Mark Samuels Lasner writes
For a census of Oscar Wilde's presentation copies I would appreciate learning of any such copies in public and private collections. By ‘presentation copies’ are meant books by Wilde which he inscribed to friends and others--as distinguished from books by other writers given away by Wilde. Details of edition, provenance, bookplates, and bindings are helpful and welcome.
Mark Samuels Lasner,
Senior Research Fellow,
University of Delaware Library,
181 South College Avenue Newark,
DE 19717 Tel (302) 831-3250 @
or @
The most
important Wilde collection is that of the William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the
The
Library of the
The chief Wilde holdings in the
Bodleian Library at
Details:
McDonnell, Andrew. Oscar Wilde at
10.
Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain
Carson Flanders is a writing a novel where his character
finds a first edition Twain, inscribed to Wilde, with various
implications. Mr Flanders is curious
about whether there was any connection at all between the men. The biographies of Wilde that we have
consulted suggest not, itself slightly odd.
Does any reader know more? We
will pass on any information to Mr Flanders.
11.
Oscar
Wilde and Katherine Mansfield
We made these jottings from Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott (edd.): The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield.
– ‘Kathleen took Oscar Wilde as her mentor and his epigrams as a code of wisdom.’
–
Introduced to Wilde’s work by Walter Ripmann
(1869-1947), Professor of German at Queen’s College,
– ‘Vignettes’ heavily influenced by Wilde.
– Fragment of play ‘The Yellow Chrysanthemum’ c.1908 ‘draws heavily on The Duchess of Padua’.
– Early notebooks ‘drenched in Wildean influences’. Read her own homosexual leanings in Wilde.
And this from Anthony
Alpers: The Life of Katherine Mansfield.
– 1906. Was lent The Picture of Dorian Gray by her friend Mimi Bartrick-Baker, ‘a book that was to alter everything […] By Dorian Gray she was swept off her feet […] dazzled.’
In the published literature we known only of ‘Art and society : a consideration of the relations between æsthetic theories and social commitment with reference to Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde’ by Kinoshita Yukiko (Chiba: Siji Chobo 1999, based on an University of London Ph.D thesis (1997) of the same name, but we are not in touch with Dr Yukiko, and would gladly learn more both of this and of any other publication that links Wilde and Mansfield,
12. Weltbühne
Wien: The Reception of Anglophone Plays on Viennese Stages of the 20th Century
This project, directed by Professor Ewald Mengel at the Department of English and American Studies, involves members of four different departments at the University of Vienna, including English and American Studies, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies and Theatre, Film and Media Studies, and has ALSO established international ties with the Department of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London. Two of our Associate Editors, Barbara Pfeifer and Sandra Mayer, are involved in this project.
The members’ individual projects cover an extensive variety
of issues. The range includes three full-length studies on the Viennese
reception of such classic playwrights as Shakespeare, Shaw and Wilde, as well
as contributions on various aspects of cultural transfer, censorship,
transcultural theatre and stage translation.
We will report further on this 
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13. The
Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture Research Project
Not a million miles from the above, and funded by the Arts
and Humanities Research Council in
Research will focus on the historical, cultural and artistic
complexity of the Viennese café as an urban space in order to better understand
the culture of cafes, both past and present.
Attention has long been focused on
The project is run jointly by Dr Tag
Gronberg and Dr Simon Shaw-Miller in the Department of History of
Art, Film and Visual Media,
More information on the project can be found at www.rca.ac.uk/viennacafe. We will be covering this carefully, from both
the
14.
Lectures in London
We used to draw readers' attention to the list of lectures taking
place in
15. The
London
This is a series of guided walks in
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The ADVENTURE EXPLORATIONS
INTO HIDDEN LITERARY CONTACT Nicolas Granger-Taylor, Tel: 020 7387 7942 Mobile: 07791
029 770 Email: @ FORTHCOMING THE A volume of
essays on AUBREY
BEARDSLEY by Alexia Lazou ○ ALEISTER CHARLES FORT
by John Rimmer ○ ARTHUR MACHEN by Nicolas
Granger-Taylor EDWARD
HERON-ALLEN by Joan Navarre
○ BARON CORVO by Bryan Welch ARTHUR SYMONS
by SAX ROHMER by WILLIAM S.
BURROUGHS by Bill Redwood |
IV. THE
CRITIC AS CRITIC
Last month’s review section contained reviews by Marie-Noelle Zeender on Oscar Wilde in Paris, Lucia Krämer on Oscar Wilde from first
to last, Angela Kingston on Oscar Wilde
in
This month we carry the
following reviews
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Mark Llewellyn on Gyles Brandreth’s murder mystery |
Salome in |
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Lucia Krämer on Susanne Bach’s exploration of theatricality in
James, Hardy, Collins, Wilde |
The Importance of being Earnest in |
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Laurence Talairach-Vielmas on Christine Ferguson’s brutal language |
The Importance of being Earnest in |
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The Judas Kiss in |
The Zemlinsky
Operas at Bard (Bruce Bashford) |
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Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime in |
Pissarro in |
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Lady Windermere’s Fan in |
Kolo Moser in |
These
reviews may be found by clicking
Clicking 
will take you to the Table of Contents of all
our reviews, which we are updating.
We
welcome offers to review from readers.
V.
BEING TALKED ABOUT: CALLS FOR PAPERS
Here we now only note Calls for Papers or articles
specifically relating to Wilde or his immediate circles. The more general list has its own page; to
reach it, please click . We hope these Calls may attract Wildëans.
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We draw your attention particularly to
the call for papers for an Oscar Wilde
Conference in Oxford being
arranged by Stefano Evangelista at
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and to this Call
for articles for a Special Issue of Modernism/Modernity on British
Decadence/aestheticism and modernism from Professor Cassandra Laity.
I am calling for submissions for a special issue on British Æstheticism (or Decadent/Aestheticism) and modernism of Modernism/Modernity (14.5, September 2008). Submissions may treat any aspect of Æstheticism and its relation to modernism and/or the formation of 20th-century ‘modernity.’
The field is open, but topics such Æstheticism and/or
decadence and Victorian visualities, technology, architecture, or science in
19th-century painting, poetry, literature as they ‘interface’ with
related phenomena and art in modernism are welcome.
Deadline:
Send by attachment to: <claity@drew.edu> and <tdiefenb2002@yahoo.com>
or by post to Prof. Cassandra Laity, Department of English, Drew University, 36
Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940.
We have arranged
with Professor Laity to publish abstracts of the articles submitted to this
special issue of Modernism/Modernity.
VI. The Other Oscar
Our occasional research into the Oscar Wilde of the
parallel universe: Introducing Oscar
Monoclonal Antibody (though perhaps this should be filed in our Work in
Progress section)
We thank Dr Ellis Hanson of
My criticism on Wilde seems to be reaching a wider
audience. I thought you might enjoy this, which arrived in the mail
recently. I wonder if other OSCHOLARS have been similarly approached:
Dear Dr. Hanson,
From your article titled "Oscar Wilde and the
scarlet woman." (J Homosex. 1997;33(3-4):121-37.), we learned of your
research with OSCAR and thought you might be interested in knowing that GenWay
currently offers a monoclonal antibody against this target as part of our
catalog products.
Here's a link to
our NEW website to view the datasheet: OSCAR Monoclonal Antibody
GenWay specializes
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Dr Hanson kindly permits us to publish his response:
Dear
May I call you Gen? Thanks for your urgent message
about your custom-tailored antibodies, but the target Oscar has already
infected my department. It's too late for us. We titter helplessly
at witty epigrams. Various clonal bodies have commenced to
proliferate. Evacuate while you can.
Oscar's data sheets were already inspected at his trial.
Yours in struggle,
Dr. Hanson
We add that the avian antibodies here mentioned should not
be applied to Dúnlaith Bird, Robin Darwall-Smith, Ashley Robins, Ruth Robbins,
Merlin Holland, Alan Peacock, Robert Merle, Terry Eagleton… and we continue to
speculate as to whether Elsa Kits might be the younger sister of Eartha.
VII. Oscar Wilde: The Video
A resource new to us is the website Youtube, from which we
offer the following link as launching our new section,Video clip of the
month. This is a trailer for a film of Salome, which to our great regret will
never be made. The producer is Vanessa
Magowan Horrocks, who is reading for a B.A in the Theatre Program at the
We thank Ms Horrocks for this information, and highly recommend her work for its quality and originality.
Salome is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGr25geLrAk
VIII. Web Foot Notes
Our monthly look at websites of possible interest. Contributions welcome here as elsewhere. This
feature will be updated in our next issue (November / December 2007). Here
we note a new website launched
by Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend Department of English Studies,
The Department of English Studies at the
This aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for lively discussion and critical debate concerning all manifestations of the gothic mode, be it historical or as manifested in more modern and contemporary cultural events. We also seek to establish an internet-based community of gothic scholars and enthusiasts, and to serve as a platform for the dissemination of information relevant to our mutual gothic interests through our News page, run by Elizabeth Andrews.
The site’s bloggers, Amy Palko and Marilyn Michaud, will include posts on new books, films and other media, reports on gothic conferences and other events, and regular profiles of postgraduates working in the field. It starst with an introduction from Amy and a post from Marilyn on the new I am Legend film.
Each month on a guest blog they invite an academic or writer
to introduce issues more specifically related to the Global gothic. To launch the
guest blog, Katarzyna Ancuta (
In the Global gothic section, they will report on the publication of both fictional and non-fictional books, and the release of films and other media that might be of interest to those investigating global manifestations of the gothic aesthetic.
Keep checking back - this is a constantly evolving site, and
new items will be added regularly.
All the material
that we have thus far published in the monthly 'Web Foot Notes' was brought
together in June 2003 in one list called 'Trafficking for Strange Webs'. New websites will continue to be reviewed
here each month, after which they will be filed on the Trafficking for Strange
Webs page. A Table of Contents has been
added for ease of access.
‘Trafficking for
Strange Webs’ surveys 48 websites devoted to Oscar Wilde.
The Société
Oscar Wilde is also publishing on its website two lists (‘Liens’ and
‘Liaisons’) of recommendations.
To see ‘Trafficking for Strange Webs’,
click 
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To see ‘Liens’, click here.
To see ‘Liaisons’, click here.
Sites most recnetly
visited
We copy this
from the Irish Diaspora list,
Forwarded on behalf of Aidan Arrowsmith. Subject: British Association for Irish
Studies website.
Some of you will
have noticed that, since before Christmas, we have been having major problems
with our website. To cut a very long story short, our domain name, which
we have owned for many years, was mistakenly sold by our hosting company, and
despite protracted negotiations, it has proved impossible to buy it back.
As a result, we are taking the opportunity to overhaul the
BAIS website with the aim of making it a genuine hub for Irish studies in
In the meantime, please do visit www.bais.ac.uk - and update your bookmarks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde is
(obviously) the Wikipedia address for Oscar Wilde. The long entry is sound enough, though
besprinkled with small errors (‘Sir Edward Clark’ … ‘’The Reverend Stuart
Hedlam’ … ‘Chief Justice Sir Alfred Wills’) and is sometimes rather naïvely
written. We have little experience of
Wikipedia, and do not know how the article rates by its usual standards.
IX. BIBLIOGRAPHIES
In
October 2007 we were extremely pleased to announce the creation of a Spanish
bibliography of works on Oscar Wilde, compiled specially for THE OSCHOLARS
by Professor Cristina Pascual Aransáez. In the same month, as part of Richard Ellmann
tributes, we published a bibliography of Ellmann’s writing on Wilde. The bibliographies for this month are of the
writings on Wilde by Dr Bruce Bashford,
and of the articles on Wilde published in the journal In-Between (
X. NEVER
SPEAKING DISRESPECTFULLY: THE OSCAR WILDE SOCIETIES & ASSOCIATIONS
Readers accustomed to checking here for news of the Wilde Societies are advised that these now have their own page. To reach it, please click
This is the fourth issue of THE OSCHOLARS to be originated on our new
website, provided and constructed by Steven Halliwell of The Rivendale Press, a publishing
house with a special interest in the fin-de-siècle. Mr Halliwell joins Dr John Phelps of
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