Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries.

Paul L. Fortunato

Chapter 1 Background: Wilde's Social Circles and Consumer Culture; Chapter 2 Newspaper Culture in the Pall Mall Gazette Years (1884-1890); Chapter 3 The Woman's World (1887-1889) as Fashion Magazine and Modernist Laboratory; Chapter 4 Philosophy with a Needle and Thread: The Aesthetics of Fashion in Baudelaire, Wilde, and Tomson/Watson; Chapter 5 Consumer Fashion and Modernist Aesthetics in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892); Chapter 6 Mrs. Erlynne as Modernist: The Artist of Consumer Image and Ritual; Conclusion;