Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire

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Traces the variety of social pressures that inspired Oscar Wilde's lifelong effort to concoct forms of desire that thrill without menacing us, as well as the alchemies by which he sought to do so. This book assigns Wilde a place of honor in a company of thinkers drawn from the ranks of philosophy, sociology, economics, psychoanalysis, and more.

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"Tame Passions presents a re-visioning of Wilde's work as a sustained meditation on will and desire. In the process, it also offers an enticing proposal for a revised model of modernity that extends from the late-Victorian era to the present day."--Dennis Denisoff, Victorian Studies

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Jeff Nunokawa is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University and the author of "The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security" and the "Victorian Novel" (Princeton).