Salome's modernity Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression - Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-; ebrary, Inc. (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011)
Introduction -- Dancing on the threshold : Wilde's Salome between symbolist, decadent, and modernist aesthetics -- "The brutal music and the delicate text"? Richard Strauss's operatic modernism in Salome -- Perverts in court : Maud Allan's the vision of Salome and the Pemberton-Billing trial -- Alla Nazimova's Salome : an historical phantasy by Oscar Wilde -- Portraits of the artist as a gay man and Salome as a feminist icon : Wilde and Salome in popular culture since the 1980s.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Wilde, Oscar, -- 1854-1900.; Wilde, Oscar, -- 1854-1900 -- Influence; Salome -- (Biblical figure) -- In literature; Deviant behavior in literature; Modernism (Aesthetics); Electronic books