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This essay explores the construction of Salomé in Wilde’s Salomé as the degenerate Jewish femme fatale, her transformation into a covert male transvestite, John the Baptist’s affiliation with fìn-de-siècle decadents, and his alliance with Herod against Salomé and Herodias. Drawing on Huysmans’s reading of Moreau’s Salomé, Wilde carries on with constructing Salomé’s image as the perverse femme fatale echoing the male decadents’ misogynous and anti-Semitic discourses. His text generates the Jewish femme fatale indulging in Oriental promiscuity, which brings Salomania into vogue throughout Europe. Wilde’s depiction of John the Baptist was influenced by Pater’s worship of Da Vinci’s portrayal of the feminized prophet, which embeds a cryptic code of homosexuality within the play. This secretly changes the cultural stereotype of the Jewish femme fatale into a male transvestite and hints at Wilde’s challenge to the taboos on homosexuality. However, the encryption of homosexuality also helps Salomé reveal Herod’s alliance with the Baptist, who acts as a misogynous male decadent like Wilde himself, and their antifeminism. Thus, Wilde’s Salomé turns out to be a self-contradictory text where the anti-patriarchal challenge to sexual taboos collides with patriarchal notions of women.

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I. Introduction
 II. Fabrication of the Fìn-de-siècle Salomé and Wilde’s Salomé
 III. Salomé and John the Baptist as a Decadent
 IV. Conclusion
 Works Cited
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• Son, Younghee [ Kwangwoon University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810