Salome's Modernity Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression / [Recurso electrónico] :
Petra Dierkes-Thrun.
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.
- 1 online resource (x, 247 p. :) ill. ;
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.
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.