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Salomé

Gustave Moreau’s 1876 SalomĂ© dansant devant HĂ©rode (Salome dancing before Herod) descriptions of which in Joris-Karl Huysmans’s Ă€ rebours (Against Nature) had stimulated Wilde’s interest in the subject.
The Only Known Typescript of Wilde’s FRENCH Salome

I have somewhat of a preoccupation with the use of primary sources, and sources don’t come any more primary than the recent discoveries of Wildeana that were made at the Free Library of Philadelphia prior to the Oscar Wilde season early this year.

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Literary Metaphor at the Oscar Wilde Festival in Galway

Focused though I am on Oscar Wilde In America, I like to keep an eye on the bigger picture.

However, I know that to see the brushstrokes up close it is sometimes necessary to depart from topical and geographical constraints and visit the works themselves.

So last weekend I attended the Oscar Wilde Festival in Galway, Ireland, where I discovered part of the Wilde canvas rendered in two books with contrasting techniques.

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