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SUMMARY:Fantasies\, Fantasias\, and Fangirls: Wilde’s Fairy Tales and "Ne
 w Women" Writers
DESCRIPTION:\nWilliam Andrews Clark Oscar Wilde Lecture\nLecture by Margare
 t D. Stetz\, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Prof
 essor of Humanities\, University of Delaware\nOscar Wilde’s importance i
 n the world of the theatre is\, of course\, unparalleled. His effect on Go
 thic fiction (and on queer fiction) has been equally profound\, due to the
  popularity of his one novel\, The Picture of Dorian Gray. This talk\, how
 ever\, will suggest that his fairy tales have been just as influential\, a
 nd that their influence was clear almost immediately after the publication
  of both The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranat
 es (1891)\, especially in works by rebellious “New Women” of the 1890s
 . Irish and English writers such as “George Egerton” (Mary Chavelita D
 unne)\, Mabel Nembhard\, and Ella Erskine followed his lead in this form\,
  while often turning their own storytelling in different directions\, incl
 uding feminist ones. Like his\, their fairy tales were not for children\, 
 but for politically conscious adults. Though their names may be unfamiliar
  to readers today\, these women helped to keep Wilde’s innovations and h
 is literary reputation alive throughout his persecution by the British leg
 al system and catastrophic fall from grace.\n\nMargaret D. Stetz is the Ma
 e and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humani
 ties at the University of Delaware. Her previous positions were at Georget
 own University and at the University of Virginia. She has been the author 
 or editor of a number of volumes and of over 130 published essays on topic
 s ranging from Victorian women’s comic fiction\, to sexual violence duri
 ng wartime\, to the politics of animated films. Among her recent publicati
 ons are chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde (Oxford University 
 Press)\, Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press)\, and Neo-V
 ictorian Decadence (DeGruyter/Brill)\, as well as articles in the journals
  The Henry James Review\, Volupté\, and Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
 . She has also been curator or co-curator of over a dozen exhibitions on l
 ate-Victorian print culture and art at museums\, libraries\, and galleries
 \, including Aubrey Beardsley\, 150 Years Young (Grolier Club\, NY\, 2022)
  and Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity (New York Public Library\, 2022
 –2023. In addition\, she is a widely published poet.\n\n\n\nThe lecture 
 is free to attend with advance registration. It will be held in-person at 
 the Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. No r
 egistration is required to watch the livestream.  Seating is limited at t
 he Clark Library\; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\n\n\n
 \nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Nembhard\, Mabel. Illustrated by Sambourne\, Bo
 wley\, Gibson\, and Reason. Fantasies (London: George Allen\, 1896\, First
  Edition). Courtesy of Prof. Margaret D. Stetz.
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LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream\, 252
 0 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
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