Introduction / Harold Bloom

The uses of decadence: Wilde, Yeats and Joyce / Richard Ellmann

A poetics for living: Christ and the meaning of sorrow in De profundis / Guy Willoughby

Bunburying with Bakhtin: a carnivalesque reading of The importance of being earnest / Ronald Knowles

The Victorian impulse in contemporary audiences: the regularization of The importance of being earnest / Michael Patrick Gillespie

Oscar Wilde's aesthetic gothic: Walter Pater, dark enlightenment, and The picture of Dorian Gray / John Paul Riquelme

Wilde's Salomé and the Victorian religious landscape / Christopher S. Nassaar

Parody, paradox and play in The importance of being earnest / Burkhard Niederhoff

"The honey of romance": Oscar Wilde as poet and novelist / James G. Nelson.