Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression

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237 Index Page numbers in italic denote ‹gures. Acosta, Mercedes de, 140 Adorno, Theodor, 8, 69, 73, 77, 208n11 aestheticism, 30, 44–45, 73, 82, 160, 170, 203n2; de‹ned, 203n4 Allan, Maud, 83–124 (chap. 3); autobiography of, 97–100, 106–7; and the Ballets Russes, 97; brother a murderer , 84, 97, 120, 210n9; and Claude Cahun, 100–111, 115–16, 123–24; “The Cult of the Clitoris,” 112, 119, 212n24; feminist aspects of her work, 12, 54; and homosexuality or “perversity,” 91, 110–24, 143, 159, 160; in music hall and popular culture , 88, 89–94, 102; and the Pemberton -Billing Trial, 12, 83, 109–24, 154, 199, 200, 211n19; in The Rugmaker ’s Daughter (‹lm), 94; and the suffragettes, 83–84, 100–109, 110, 199, 122, 159, 209n19, 210n14; The Vision of Salomé, 12, 83, 84–109, 122, 125. See also music hall; Salome dance craze; Salome dancers alter ego, 3, 12, 78, 167, 171, 207n4 Anger, Kenneth, 146 anti-semitism, 32, 57, 63, 66, 72, 74–75, 111, 142, 192, 206n20 Archer, William, 134 Aristotle, 9 Armatage, Kay, 193 Arnold, Matthew, 9, 45 Arzner, Dorothy, 140 Asquith, Herbert (prime minister), 100, 103, 211n18. See also Salome cartoon Asquith, Margot, 100, 120, 210n15 Aston, Elaine, 74 Bakst, Léon, 96 Ballets Russes, 94, 96, 97, 141 Bantock, Granville, 109 Bara, Theda, 141–42, 158, 213n8, 213n11 Barnes, Djuna, 132–33 Barthes, Roland, 176 Bartlett, Neil, 178 Bartone, Richard, 181 Bashford, Bruce, 204n5 Bataille, Georges, 2, 3, 176, 190; excess and ecstasy in, 9, 49–50; horror in, 49–50, 99; Madame Edwarda, 49–55; and Nietzsche’s death of God, 51–52 Beardsley, Aubrey, 5, 91, 144, 162, 170 Becker-Leckrone, Megan, 15 Beckson, Karl, 213n13 Beecham, Sir Thomas, 80 Beerbohm, Max, 63, 91 Benjamin, Walter, 77 Benkowitz, Miriam, 94 Bentley, Toni, 85, 92, 94, 102, 108, 210n12, 212n24 Berg, Alban, 66, 70 Bergler, Edmund, 215n10 Berman, Marshall, 8 Bernhardt, Sarah, 3, 4, 5, 28, 73–74, 88, 126, 186, 208n15, 214n4 Bernheimer, Charles, 203n2 Bizet, Georges, 207n25 Bizot, Richard, 77, 83, 90, 94, 95, 97, 141, 209n4, 210n12 Bland, Lucy, 112, 114, 118, 119–20 Blathwayt, Raymond, 86, 209n6 Blunt, Wilfrid, 4 Bock, Artur, 94 Bockting, Margaret, 133 Bodeen, DeWitt, 213n7 Bodley Head (John Lane and Elkin Mathews), 5 Böker, Uwe, 6 Botstein, Leon, 58 Boyden, Matthew, 75 Brandes, Friedrich, 67, 74 Brenon, Herbert, 137 Bristow, Joseph, 7 Broken Goddess (dir. Peter Dallas, starring Holly Woodlawn), 147 Bronski, Michael, 179 Brown, Daniel, 161, 214n1 Brown, Julia Prewitt, 73, 207n26 Bryant, Charles, 139–40, 213n10 Burke, Edmund, 72 Bush, Ronald, 203n1 Busoni, Ferruccio, 66, 84 Butler, Judith, 175, 181 Butt, Alfred, 90 Caddy, Davinia, 100, 209n2, 210n12 Cahill, Marie, 102 Cahun, Claude, 110–11, 115–16, 123–24. See also under Allan, Maud Calinescu, Mateo, 209n19 Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 186 Carter, Alexandra, 89, 92, 210n12 Casement, Roger, 211n22 Castiglia, Christopher, 201–2 Cave, Nick, 188–90, 193, 195, 201, 216n17 Cazalis, Henri, 60 Charcot, Jean-Martin, 37, 206n21 Cherniavsky, Felix, 90–109 passim, 209nn2–3, 210n11 Clark, Caryl, 193 Clarke, Eric, 180 Cléopâtre (by Victorien Sardou), 29. See also Bernhardt, Sarah Cohen, Ed, 215n9 Cohler, Deborah, 110 Colonna, Vittoria (Duchess of Sermoneta ), 88 Communist Manifesto, 33 Compton-Ricketts, Arthur, 88, 97 Constable, Liz, 209n19 consumerism, 35, 40, 54, 69, 73, 81, 82, 126, 141, 147, 148, 157, 207n2 Cooke, Serrell. See Allan, Maud: and the Pemberton-Billing Trial Cookie’s Fortune (dir. Robert Altman), 188, 192–94 Cooper, Lady Diana, 100 Corballis, Richard, 6 Corelli, Marie, 112 Corinth, Lovis, 64 corporalization of affect, 17, 59–65, 198 Craft, Marcella, 72, 208n13 Craven, Thomas, 145 crisis of the modern subject, 2–3, 8, 17, 25, 40, 42–43, 55, 57, 58, 188, 198 “Cult of the Clitoris, The.” See under Allan , Maud Daffner, Hugo, 204n4 Dance of the Seven Veils: Maud Allan’s interpretation of, 86, 87, 88, 89–91, 97–100, 209n2; in Cave, 189; in Cookie’s Fortune, 193; in Flaubert, 30–31; in The Governess, 192; in Huysmans, 36–39; in Maudie (anonymous novel), 104; in Nazimova, 145, 147, 156–57; in Pall Mall Gazette car238 Index toon, 103, 104; in Salome’s Last Dance, 165, 166–67; in Saura’s Salome, 195; in Skinny Legs and All, 190–92; in Strauss, 76–77, 95; in various other versions, 93, 94, 96, 162. See also Salome dance craze; Salome...