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SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde's Modernist Legacies
DESCRIPTION:\n\nOrganized by Professors Joseph Bristow\, University of Cali
 fornia\, Los Angeles\, and Deaglán Ó Donghaile\, Liverpool John Moores U
 niversity\n\nA central figure in the literary and cultural spheres of the 
 late nineteenth century\, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was also the originato
 r of Irish modernism. Still\, literary scholarship has largely sidelined h
 is powerful influence over this movement. Regarded by his contemporaries a
 s an outstanding artist\, critic\, and public intellectual until his impri
 sonment in 1895\, current research on Wilde tends to confine his leading p
 resence within the late Victorian aesthetic and decadent movements. By hig
 hlighting this overlooked aspect of Wilde’s legacy\, “Oscar Wilde’s 
 Modernist Legacies” will raise critical and theoretical awareness of his
  influence over modernist innovation not only within the field of literary
  production but also in related artistic areas in Ireland and beyond.\n\nT
 he literary revival of the 1890s has been cited as the launching ground fo
 r experimental modernism in Ireland\, with the publication and staging of 
 works by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)\, John Millington Synge (1871
 –1909)\, and Augusta Gregory (1852–1932) that celebrate rural or Celti
 cist versions of modernity. The revival’s longer-term origins\, however\
 , can be traced to the metropolitan and radical aesthetes\, feminists\, qu
 eer artists\, anarchists\, and Irish separatists who belonged to the milie
 us in which Oscar Wilde moved.  This conference will draw on the Clark Li
 brary’s imposing archive\, the “Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle Co
 llection\,” to explore the dialogues that these figures established\, al
 ong with their interactions with traditions of Irish and\, more broadly\, 
 American and European modernism.\n\nOrganized thematically around the mate
 rials held at the Clark Library\, the conference’s opening panel will al
 low scholars to reflect upon important archives such as the More House Arc
 hive\, the Pierre Louÿs Collection\, and the Clark’s important fine pre
 ss collection\, which includes important material produced by the Cuala Pr
 ess in Ireland (1908–1946). Besides these sources\, the conference will 
 address the library’s important collections of rare books\, manuscripts 
 (including the work of the Scottish anarchist and friend of Wilde’s\, Th
 omas Hastie Bell)\, pamphlets\, and ephemera relating to the interchanges 
 between experimental writing and cultural expression of the late nineteent
 h and early twentieth centuries.\n\nThe organizers: Deaglán Ó Donghaile\
 , Reader in English at Liverpool John Moores University\, is the author of
  Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle (Edinburgh Uni
 versity Press\, 2020) and Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction 
 and the Shock of Modernism (Edinburgh University Press\, 2011). Joseph Bri
 stow\, Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA\, has published widely o
 n Wilde’s life and works. His most recent monograph is Oscar Wilde on Tr
 ial: The Criminal Proceedings\, from Arrest to Imprisonment (Yale Universi
 ty Press\, 2022). Currently\, he is co-editing (with Yvonne Ivory and Rebe
 cca N. Mitchell) two volumes of Wilde’s unfinished and miscellaneous wri
 tings (for Oxford University Press).\n\nSpeakers\nPatrick Bixby\, Arizona 
 State University\nEnda Duffy\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\nK
 ate Hext\, University of Exeter and Ewha Womans University\nYvonne Ivory\,
  University of South Carolina\nGregory Mackie\, The University of British 
 Columbia\nKristin Mahoney\, Michigan State University\nAlex Murray\, Queen
 's University Belfast\nBrian Ó Conchubhair\, University of Notre Dame\nAn
 a Rodríguez Navas\, Loyola University Chicago\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\nQ&
 amp\;A to follow each presentation\n\nFriday\, June 5\n\n9:00 a.m.\nCoffee
  and Registration\n\n9:30 a.m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nBronwen Wilson\, Uni
 versity of California\, Los Angeles\n\nIntroduction\nJoseph Bristow\, Univ
 ersity of California\, Los Angeles\, and Deaglán Ó Donghaile\, Liverpool
  John Moores University\n\n9:45 a.m.\nPatrick Bixby\, Arizona State Univer
 sity\n“‘Abnormal Subjects’: Wilde\, Nietzsche\, and the Closeted Leg
 acy of Degenerate Modernism”\n\n10:30 a.m.\nEnda Duffy\, University of C
 alifornia\, Santa Barbara\n“Wilde’s Gestures\; Yeats’s Noh\; Joyce D
 ancing: Irish Movement-Modernism”\n\n11:15 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n11:45 a
 .m.\nYvonne Ivory\, University of South Carolina\n“‘From the Sublime t
 o the MacLiammóir’: The Gate's World Premiere of Wilde's ‘La Sainte C
 ourtisane’”\n\n12:30 p.m.\nLunch\nExhibition of Clark Library material
 s in the Book Rooms\n\n2:00 p.m.\nBrian Ó Conchubhair\, University of Not
 re Dame\n“The Decay of Lying and the Birth of Criticism: Wilde\, Pearse 
 and the Irish Language\nRevival”\n\n2:45 p.m.\nGregory Mackie\, Universi
 ty of British Columbia\n“The First Collected Edition of Oscar Wilde”\n
 \n3:30 p.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n4:00 p.m.\nKristin Mahoney\, Michigan State U
 niversity\n“Wilde and Decadent Orientalism”\n\n4:45 p.m.\nReception\n\
 n5:45 p.m.\nConclusion\n\nSaturday\, June 6\n\n9:00 a.m.\nCoffee and Regis
 tration\n\n9:30 a.m.\nAlex Murray\, Queen’s University Belfast\n“‘Te
 rra Australis beckons at the sliprails of the Imagination’: Wilde\, Sett
 ler-Colonialism\, and Cultural Renewal”\n\n10:15 a.m.\nAna Rodríguez Na
 vas\, Loyola University Chicago\n“Oscar Wilde's Latin American Afterlive
 s”\n\n11:00 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n11:30 a.m.\nKate Hext\, University of 
 Exeter and Ewha Womans University\n“Wilde and Cinematic Consciousness”
 \n\n12:15 p.m.\nConclusion\n\n\n\nThe conference is free to attend with ad
 vance registration. It will be held in-person at the Clark Library and liv
 estreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. No registration is required t
 o watch the livestream.\n\nPresentations will be recorded and made availab
 le on the Center’s YouTube Channel until December 7\, 2026: youtube.com/
 @ucla-c1718cs\n\nSeating is limited at the Clark Library\; walk-in registr
 ants are welcome as space permits.\n\n\n\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Beardsl
 ey\, Aubrey Vincent\, 1872–1898\, "Oscar Wilde at work (il ne faut pas l
 e regarder)\," first appearance in C. Lewis Hind\, The Uncollected Work of
  Aubrey Beardsley (London: John Lane\, 1925). Courtesy of the William Andr
 ews Clark Memorial Library.
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