| Description |
xxii, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-298) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Biography and the art of lying / Merlin Holland -- Wilde and the Victorians / Regenia Gagnier -- Wilde and the Dandyism of the senses / Stephen Calloway -- Wilde as poet / Karl Beckson and Bobby Fong -- Wilde the journalist / John Stokes -- Wilde as critic and theorist / Lawrence Danson -- Wilde's fiction(s) / Jerusha McCormack -- Distance, death and desire in Salome / Joseph Donohue -- Wilde's comedies of society / Peter Raby -- Importance of being earnest / Russell Jackson -- Verdict of death : Oscar Wilde, actresses and Victorian women / Kerry Powell -- 'Complex multiform creature' : Wilde's sexual identities / Joseph Bristow -- Wilde's plays : some lines of influence / Richard Allen Cave -- Wilde on the stage / Joel Kaplan -- Oscar Wilde : the resurgence of lying / Declan Kiberd. |
| Subject |
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Raby, Peter.
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| ISBN |
0521479878 (pbk.) |
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052147471X (hardback) |
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