Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: The Romance of Wilde and the City of Light Colette Colligan and Gregory Mackie Part 1: Wilde City Chapter One: Oscar Wilde and the "Artistic Capital of the World" Nicholas Frankel Chapter Two: "I am not really myself except in the midst of elegant crowds": The Role of Paris in Oscar Wilde's Identity Formation Paisley Mann Part 2: Journalistic Advocacy Chapter Three: How Parisian Journalists Changed Their Minds about the Wilde Scandal Colette Colligan Chapter Four: Oscar Wilde and Henry-D. Davray: Reviewing, Translating, and Publishing Wilde for the Mercure de France Petra Dierkes Part 3: Archive and Anecdote Chapter Five: Disputed Memories: Oscar Wilde's Deathbed at the Hôtel d'Alsace Joseph Bristow Chapter Six: Oscar Wilde's French Fragments Rebecca N. Mitchell Part 4: Literary Influence and Appropriation Chapter Seven: Oscar Wilde and Pierre Louÿs: Gestures of Literary Friendship from Inspiration to Translation Clément Dessy and Stefano Evangelista Chapter Eight: Oscar Wilde, Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, and Cross-Channel Decadence in the Twentieth Century Kristin Mahoney Part 5: Legend and Legacy Chapter Nine: Oscar Wilde's Tomb: Silence and the Aesthetics of Queer Memorial Ellen Crowell Chapter Ten: Un Faux Parisien: Sylvestre Dorian and Oscar Wilde's Letters to Sarah Bernhardt Gregory Mackie Bibliography Index.
Oscar Wilde's Paris : Legends and Legacies