Performing the “Wilde West”: Victorian Afterlives, Sexual Performance, and the American West

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That Untravell'd World: The Problem of Thinking Globally in Victorian Studies

“…Interestingly, Wilde's American tour has become favorite site for critics wishing to explore such indirect affinities. Daniel Novak, for instance, notes that a range of contemporary literary works, including Charles Marowitz's 1988 play Wilde West , have revisited this event in order to ponder the relationship between American settler masculinity, queerness, and aesthetic performance, three terms that were all under serious reconsideration during the 1980s and 1990s. Jesse Matz, meanwhile, situates Wilde's tour alongside the Supreme Court's nearly contemporaneous Santa Clara County v .…”