Part 1. Materials / Philip E. Smith II
Intellectual and Critical Contexts: Fin de Siecle Europe and America
Introduction: Wilde's Challenge to Teachers
Contexts for Teaching Wilde
The Critic as Student: An Argumentative Approach
Oscar Wilde and the 1890s: A Single-Figure Course
Teaching Wilde's Fiction: The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Short Stories, and the Fairy Tales
Gray Zones: Teaching The Picture of Dorian Gray as a Victorian Novel
Teaching The Picture of Dorian Gray as a "Gay" Text
Dorian Gray in the Twentieth Century: The Politics and Pedagogy of Filming Oscar Wilde's Novel
The Shorter Fiction Approached and Questioned
Teaching Wilde's Fairy Tales: Aestheticism as Social and Cultural Critique in "The Happy Prince" and "The Nightingale and the Rose"
Teaching Wilde's Comedies
An Introductory Approach to Teaching Wilde's Comedies
A Method for Using Biography in the Teaching of Oscar Wilde's Comedies
Teaching Melodrama, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Lady Windermere's Fan
Wilde about Ibsen: The Fusion of Dramatic Modes in A Woman of No Importance
Wilde in the Comparative Arts Course: Teaching An Ideal Husband
Form and Freedom in The Importance of Being Earnest
Teaching Salome: A Test Case for Modern Approaches
Teaching Oscar Wilde's Salome in a Theater History and Dramatic Literature Seminar
Oscar Wilde and the Motif of Looking: An Approach to Teaching Gender Issues in Salome
Viewing Salome Symbolically
Salome, C'est Moi? Salome and Wilde as Icons of Sexual Transgression
Unveiling Salome: The Word-Made-Flesh Undone
Teaching Wilde's Criticism
Using Wilde's Intentions to Help Students Establish Wilde's Intentions
Teaching Oscar Wilde: "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian England and English Studies
Teaching Wilde's Trial and Later Writing
Tomorrow on Trial: Wilde's Case in the Classroom
The Love That Dare Not Teach Its Name: Wilde, Religious Studies, and Teaching Tolerance
Learning the Importance of Being an Earnest Reader through De Profundis and Gross Indecency
"All Men Kill the Thing They Love": Romance, Realism, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol
