Richard A Kaye

Graduate Center of the City University of New York, English, Faculty Member

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Oscar Wilde in the Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay

Dickens Studies Annual, 2023

An overview of scholarly and critical works on Oscar Wilde over the last two decades as well as a... more

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“Beastliness” at the Fin de Siècle

English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 2016

Beyond Odd Women and Old Maids: D. H. Lawrence’s The Lost Girl, Decadent Heroines, and the Challenge to Modern Tragedy

Études Lawrenciennes, 2021

Critics generally have viewed D. H. Lawrence’s novel The Lost Girl (1920) as a vexing fictional w... more Critics generally have viewed D. H. Lawrence’s novel The Lost Girl (1920) as a vexing fictional work that, with its resemblance to the fiction of Arnold Bennett and Compton Mackenzie, seems to eschew the modernist experiment that Lawrence had boldly embarked on in his other fiction of the period. Yet the story of Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a struggling Midlands draper and an “odd woman” who seems to reject marriage, only superficially follows the examples set by these writers. Rather, the novel’s heroine, with her ten suitors and her restless need to dominate her lovers, echoes the aspirations of the turn-of-the-century Aestheticist movement and resembles more the heroines of Decadent fiction, with their indomitable, insatiable erotic requirements. Furthermore, in rejecting the social realm that is so crucial to realist fiction of the period, Lawrence rejects the idea that unmarried women face a tragic personal dilemma.

Decadence in the Age of Modernism ed. by Kate Hext and Alex Murray

Modernism/modernity, 2021

Salome’s Lost Childhood: Wilde’s Daughter of Sodom, Jugendstil Culture, and the Queer Afterlife of a Decadent Myth

The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture, 2016

... As an adult, Joey accidentally glimpses Rita Hayworth as Salome on a television screen, andHa... more

The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds: A Critical Edition ed. by Amber K. Regis (review)

Queer Brontë: Parody, Revision, Identification, and the pleasures of (Factitious) Myth-Making

Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, 2016

The Physics of Possibility: Victorian fiction, Science, and Gender (Book Review)

Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2019

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Gay Studies / Queer Theory and Oscar Wilde

Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies, 2004

If there is an author who seems to evoke today’s complex and shifting sexual Zeitgeist, animating... more If there is an author who seems to evoke today’s complex and shifting sexual Zeitgeist, animating contemporary fantasies, anxieties, and obsessions, it is surely Oscar Wilde. As I write this in New York City, Wilde the erotic dissident and decadent artist (the two roles, as we shall see, are today entangled) is everywhere in evidence: recently a new production of Strauss’s Salome; ran at the New York City Opera, the set for which — a court of Herod dominated by a huge, glittering staircase — borrowed winkingly from the Billy Wilder Hollywood movie Sunset Boulevard. On Broadway, a musical version of the film A Man of No Importance, adapted to the stage by the playwright Terrence McNally, depicted as its protagonist a Wilde-obsessed homosexual bus-driver. A new production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Jean Cocteau Repertory Company closed several months ago, only to be followed by another production by the Aquila Theater Company set in contemporary times that recently opened on off-Broadway. A “reading” of Salome; has migrated from Brooklyn to Broadway, starring Al Pacino, Aiden Quinn, Diane Wiest, and Jennifer Jason Leigh (a role then assumed by Marisa Tomei), with Pacino recapitulating his Broadway role of Herod from the 1980s.

“Oh God, There is No Woman In This”: A Marriage Below Zero, the Somerset and Russell Scandals, and the Sodomitical Threat to Victorian Marriage

Victorian Review, 2013

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St. Sebastian and the Victorian Discourse of Decadence

Victorian Literature and Culture, 1999

This paper presents a high-accuracy online calibration method for the absolute extrinsic paramete... more This paper presents a high-accuracy online calibration method for the absolute extrinsic parameters of a stereovision system that is suited for far-distance, vision-based vehicle applications. The method uses as prior knowledge the intrinsic parameters and the relative extrinsic parameters (relative position and orientation) of the two cameras, which are calibrated using offline procedures. These parameters remain unchanged if the two cameras are mounted on a rigid frame (stereo rig). The absolute extrinsic parameters define the position and orientation of the stereo system relative to a world coordinate system. They must be calibrated every time after mounting the stereo rig in the vehicle and are subject to changes due to static load factors for the used car setup. The proposed method is able to perform online the estimation of the absolute extrinsic parameters by driving the car on a flat and straight road, parallel with the longitudinal lane markers. The edge points of the longitudinal lane markers are extracted after a 2-D image classification process and reconstructed by stereovision in the stereo-rig coordinate system. After filtering out the noisy 3-D points, the normal vectors of the world coordinate system axes are estimated in the stereo-rig coordinate system by 3-D data fitting. The output of the method is the height and the orientation of the stereo cameras that are relative to the world coordinate system.

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A Good Woman on Five Thousand Pounds: Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and Literary Rivalry

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 1995

... be angry and cry fie on me if I did."37 After Bronte's death, however, Thackeray pu... more ... be angry and cry fie on me if I did."37 After Bronte's death, however, Thackeray published the fragment "Emma," Bronte's last ... compellingly strong-willed heroines in Victorian fiction could never forgive his independent-minded colleague for having created in Jane Eyre a fictional ...

Oscar Wilde and G. B. Shaw in Queer Time

After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century (Eds. Bradway/McCallum, 2018

I read for the first time the (almost) complete account of Oscar's trials...It's very int... more I read for the first time the (almost) complete account of Oscar's trials...It's very interesting and depressing. One of the surprising features is that he very nearly got off. If he had, what would have happened, I wonder? I fancy the history of English culture might have been quite different, if a juryman's stupidity had chanced to take another turn. (Lytton Strachey, Letter to Dora Carrington)

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"Marriage and Courtship" from "The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature" (2015)

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"Queer Brontë: Parody, Revision, Identification, and the Pleasures of (Factitious) Myth-Making" (2016)

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Frederick Rolfe [aka Baron Corvo] (1860-1913) from "The Yellow Nineties On-Line" (2015)

He is best known today for his fictional trilogy-Nicholas Crabbe (composed 1900-1904, published i... more He is best known today for his fictional trilogy-Nicholas Crabbe (composed 1900-1904, published in 1958), Hadrian the Seventh (1904), and The Desire and the Pursuit of the Whole (expurgated version published in 1934, complete version in 1993). These works combine outlandish personal circumstance, homoerotic yearning, an often ornate or baroque prose style, a defiant impiety against Catholic Church officialdom, and high-spirited invective against the protagonists' perceived enemies. The novels are based in part on incidents in Rolfe's life as a hardscrabble writer, ardent lover of young men, and querulous religious dissident.

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"Salome's Lost Childhood: Wilde’s Daughter of Sodom, Jugendstil Culture, and the Queer Afterlife of a Decadent Myth" in "The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture" (2008):

"Salome's Lost Childhood," in “The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture, ed. Dennis Deni... more

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St. Sebastian: The Uses of Decadence (Introduction to the exhibition catalogue "St. Sebastian: A Splendid Readiness for Death" (Vienna, 2004)

From St. Sebastian: The Uses of Decadence. Exhibition Catalogue for A Splendid Readiness for Deat... more

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A Good Woman on Five Thousand Pounds: Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and Literary Rivalry

Volume 35, Autumn 1995, Number 1, 1995

A Good Woman on Five Thousand Pounds: Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and Literary Rivalry Author(s): Ric... more

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“He is the Very Pine-Apple of Politeness”: Sheridan, Wilde, and the English Comedy of Manners (from "Wilde in Earnest," Ed. Emily Eells, 2015)

Wilde in Earnest , 2015

From "Wilde in Earnest" (Presses Universitatires de Paris Ouest)

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Oscar Wilde in the Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay

Dickens Studies Annual, 2023

An overview of scholarly and critical works on Oscar Wilde over the last two decades as well as a... more

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“Beastliness” at the Fin de Siècle

English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 2016

Beyond Odd Women and Old Maids: D. H. Lawrence’s The Lost Girl, Decadent Heroines, and the Challenge to Modern Tragedy

Études Lawrenciennes, 2021

Decadence in the Age of Modernism ed. by Kate Hext and Alex Murray

Modernism/modernity, 2021

Salome’s Lost Childhood: Wilde’s Daughter of Sodom, Jugendstil Culture, and the Queer Afterlife of a Decadent Myth

The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture, 2016

... As an adult, Joey accidentally glimpses Rita Hayworth as Salome on a television screen, andHa... more

The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds: A Critical Edition ed. by Amber K. Regis (review)

Queer Brontë: Parody, Revision, Identification, and the pleasures of (Factitious) Myth-Making

Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, 2016

The Physics of Possibility: Victorian fiction, Science, and Gender (Book Review)

Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2019

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Gay Studies / Queer Theory and Oscar Wilde

Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies, 2004

“Oh God, There is No Woman In This”: A Marriage Below Zero, the Somerset and Russell Scandals, and the Sodomitical Threat to Victorian Marriage

Victorian Review, 2013

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St. Sebastian and the Victorian Discourse of Decadence

Victorian Literature and Culture, 1999

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A Good Woman on Five Thousand Pounds: Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and Literary Rivalry

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 1995

Oscar Wilde and G. B. Shaw in Queer Time

After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory, and Sexuality in the 21st Century (Eds. Bradway/McCallum, 2018

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"Marriage and Courtship" from "The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature" (2015)

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"Queer Brontë: Parody, Revision, Identification, and the Pleasures of (Factitious) Myth-Making" (2016)

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Frederick Rolfe [aka Baron Corvo] (1860-1913) from "The Yellow Nineties On-Line" (2015)

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"Salome's Lost Childhood: Wilde’s Daughter of Sodom, Jugendstil Culture, and the Queer Afterlife of a Decadent Myth" in "The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture" (2008):

"Salome's Lost Childhood," in “The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture, ed. Dennis Deni... more

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St. Sebastian: The Uses of Decadence (Introduction to the exhibition catalogue "St. Sebastian: A Splendid Readiness for Death" (Vienna, 2004)

From St. Sebastian: The Uses of Decadence. Exhibition Catalogue for A Splendid Readiness for Deat... more

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A Good Woman on Five Thousand Pounds: Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and Literary Rivalry

Volume 35, Autumn 1995, Number 1, 1995

A Good Woman on Five Thousand Pounds: Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and Literary Rivalry Author(s): Ric... more

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“He is the Very Pine-Apple of Politeness”: Sheridan, Wilde, and the English Comedy of Manners (from "Wilde in Earnest," Ed. Emily Eells, 2015)

Wilde in Earnest , 2015

From "Wilde in Earnest" (Presses Universitatires de Paris Ouest)

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"Wilde Fever": Book Review of 'Wilde Discoveries' edited by Joseph Bristow (Irish Studies Review, 2016)

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Review of "Beastly Journeys" (2016)

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Review of "Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex, and the Novel Form" (2017)

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Review of: "Decadence and the Reinvention of Modernism" and "The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley" (2017)

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"Green, Ethical, and Queer: The Way We Read Dickens Now" (2011)

A review of two recent collections of essays on Dickens that explores how current readings of the... more A review of two recent collections of essays on Dickens that explores how current readings of the Victorian novelist reflect current concerns, causes, and interests as they offer us a writer who is citizenly, thoughtful and progressive in his outlook, replacing an earlier critical and biographical understanding of Dickens as a neurotic, obsessive writer of lurid, sensational effects.

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The Masculine Mystique, Review of: Susan Bordo, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private.

The Masculine Mystique, Review of: Susan Bordo, The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in... more

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