“Le Tétraque se perdait dans un rêve”: Concordance between Flaubert’s Hérodias and Hérodiade by Milliet, Grémont and Massenet by Clair Rowden

“…Attention is focussed on the “Dance of the Seven Veils”, recreated by innumerable dancers and musicians, particularly in the wake of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé (1893), but whom inevitably returned to Flaubert’s description of the dance as a naturalist source of inspiration which Wilde’s symbolist text was lacking. …”
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The Discordant Purdah: A Study of Textual Manipulations in Two Persian Translations of The Play “Salomé” by Abbas Mehrpooya, Negar Nowroozzadeh

“…This paper is a critical study of two Persian translations of Oscar Wilde’s playscript “Salomé”, which brings under study the issue of textual manipulations in translating the mentioned playscript from a textological viewpoint. …”
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Furnishing Nature: Textile Materiality and the Victorian Home in Alfred Hayes’s The Vale of Arden and Other Poems (1895) by Stefanie John

“…He contributed to The Yellow Book, collaborated with Richard Le Gallienne and Norman Gale, and was reviewed by Oscar Wilde. The essay investigates the forms and functions of Hayes’s textile references and allusions to Victorian interiors in the collection The Vale of Arden and Other Poems, which was first published by John Lane at The Bodley Head in 1895. …”
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Lounging Men, Standing Women: Pose and Posture in the Aesthetic Interior by Richard W. Hayes

“…Published the year before Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the novel is set, like Wilde’s, in the two most characteristic milieux of British Aestheticism: an artist’s studio and a theatre. …”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…The works of such late-Victorian writers as Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Theodore Wratislaw, John Oliver Hobbes and Oscar Wilde represent Catholic churches as retreats set apart from the ugliness and mediocrity of Victorian England—religious versions of Des Esseintes’s Fontenay-aux-Roses house in À rebours—filled with incense, organ music, and coloured light filtering through medieval stained-glass windows. …”
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Almas encerradas, cuerpos al desnudo: sexualidad, erotismo y feminidad en la edad victoriana by Luca Tommaso Catullo MacIntyre

“…Moral que fue duramente criticada por algunos de sus contemporáneos, como los escritores Oscar Wilde y Bernard Shaw, que reflejaron en sus obras la mediocridad y la estrechez de miradas de aquella sociedad. …”
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‘Subtle Instrument of Music’: Translating the Sound and Appearance of Decadence in Wilde’s Salomé by Erin Dunbar

“…Oscar Wilde’s Salomé was an adventure in decadence, decapitation, and the French language. …”
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