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Contents 12 Introduction 14 1. Dancing on the Threshold: Wilde’s Salomé between Symbolist, Decadent, and Modernist Aesthetics 28 2. “The Brutal Music and the Delicate Text”? Richard Strauss’s Operatic Modernism in Salome 69 3. Perverts in Court: Maud Allan’s The Vision of Salomé and the Pemberton-Billing Trial 96 4. Alla Nazimova’s Salomé: An Historical Phantasy by Oscar Wilde 138 5. Portraits of the Artist as a Gay Man and Salomé as a Feminist Icon: Wilde and Salomé in Popular Culture since the 1980s 174 Conclusion 210 Notes 216 Bibliography 232 Index 250

Author

Dierkes-Thrun, Petra(Author)

Language

EN