1 Intentions WHAT were Wilde's intentions ? They had always been suspect , from the time of Poems ( 1881 ) , when the word ' plagiarism ' was first pronounced against him , to The Picture of Dorian Gray , when the word was ' sodomitical ...
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Language: en
Pages: 198
Pages: 198
Wilde's Intentions is the first extended study of Oscar Wilde in his role of `the critic as artist'. Lawrence Danson shows how Wilde's essays and dialogues sought to create a new ideal of English culture, elevating what he called `lies' above history and ending the sway of `nature' over liberated
Language: en
Pages: 488
Pages: 488
This book explores Oscar Wilde’s fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive notes that Wilde took on the brilliant forger who inspired not only Coleridge, Wordsworth,
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel’s first editor, who feared it would
Language: en
Pages: 434
Pages: 434
The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge
Language: en
Pages: 345
Pages: 345
"The first variorum edition of 'De Profundis' presents its full textual history and an assessment of all extant witnesses to the text."--