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Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire
Jeff Nunokawa
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Paperback. 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. This book assigns Wilde a place of honor in a company of thinkers drawn from the ranks of philosophy, sociology, economics, psychoanalysis, and more. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 257.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691113807
SKU
V9780691113807
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About Jeff Nunokawa
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).
Reviews for Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire
"Tame Passions presents a re-visioning of Wilde's work as a sustained meditation on will and desire. In the process, it also offers an enticing proposal for a revised model of modernity that extends from the late-Victorian era to the present day."
Dennis Denisoff, Victorian Studies
Dennis Denisoff, Victorian Studies