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Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the ´modern´ and our own, postmodern, lives.

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Wilde Worlds: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and the Queer Modernity of Performance Wilde Women: Staging Home, Homeland, and the Social Actress Wilde Words: Mod Money, Transylvanian Transmissions, and the Magicking of the Material Body Wilde Ways: Salomé and the Performance of the Transgendered Jewess Hysteric What Do We Want from Wilde?: Culture, Memory, and the Trials of Time

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"[Salamensky´s] insights, couched in stylish prose and backed up by deep scholarship, merit a place in Wilde studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - CHOICE

"Truly groundbreaking This is not only an extremely incisive example of historical/cultural scholarship - impacting performance studies, literary criticism, popular culture studies, and literary/cultural history - it also gives us the first extended work on Oscar Wilde through the lens of Jewish Studies. Salamensky opens many doors here - and proceeds to go through them with depth, insight, and synthesis." - Frederick S. Roden, associate professor of English, University of Connecticut

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S. I. SALAMENSKY Associate Professor of Performance Studies at UCLA, USA.

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