‘Subtle Instrument of Music’: Translating the Sound and Appearance of Decadence in Wilde’s Salomé
Oscar Wilde’s Salomé was an adventure in decadence, decapitation, and the French language. Wilde called the play his ‘first venture to use for art that subtle instrument of music, the French tongue’ (Hart-Davis 331). Its initial performance in England was prohibited and it was not produced on stage...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/3382 |