The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde
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- Editor: Peter Raby, Homerton College, Cambridge
- Date Published: November 1997
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521479875
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The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theater's most important and enigmatic writers. Although a general overview, the volume also offers some of the latest thinking on the dramatist and his impact on the twentieth century. Part One places Wilde's work within the cultural and historical context of his time and includes an opening essay by Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland. Part Two looks at Wilde's essential work as playwright and general writer. The third group of essays examines the themes and factors that shaped Wilde's work and includes Wilde and his view of the Victorian woman, Wilde's sexual identities, and interpreting Wilde on stage. The volume provides a detailed chronology of Wilde's work, a bibliography for further reading, and illustrations from important productions.
Read more- Includes opening essay by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson
- All essays commissioned for this Companion
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"The Cambridge Companion (a particularly refreshing collection...)is certainly the first of these volumes a Wilde enthusiast will want to own. Edited by Peter Raby...these 15 essays venture more deeply into the manner and more deftly into the manners of the subject than do many works of scholarly inquiry and speculation, some of the latter by the same contributors who have here been more succinct more pointed than in their bookmaking projects elsewhere." Richard Howard, LA Times
See more reviews"An excellent overview of an important and enigmatic writer; enthusiastically recommended for all literary collections and all Wilde devotees." G. A. Cevasco, Choice
"The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde exhibits the scholarly authority for which the series of which it is a part - the Cambridge Companions to Literature - has come to be known." Victorian Studies
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- Date Published: November 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521479875
- length: 330 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- contains: 20 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations and acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Preface
Chronology
Part I. Context:
1. Biography and the art of lying Merlin Holland
2. Wilde and the Victorians Regenia Gagnier
3. Wilde and the Dandyism of the senses Stephen Calloway
Part II. Wilde's Work:
4. Wilde as poet Karl Beckson and Bobby Fong
5. Wilde the journalist John Stokes
6. Wilde as critic and theorist Lawrence Danson
7. Wilde's fiction(s) Jerusha McCormack
8. Distance, death, and desire in Salome Joseph Donahue
9. Wilde's comedies of society Peter Raby
10. The Importance of Being Earnest Russell Jackson
Part III. Themes and Influences:
11. A verdict of death: Oscar Wilde, actresses, and Victorian women Kerry Powell
12. 'A Complex, Multiform Creature' - Wilde's sexual identities Joseph Bristow
13. Wilde's plays: some lines of influence Richard Allen Cave
14. Wilde on stage Joel Kaplan
15. Oscar Wilde: the resurgence of lying Declan Kiberd
Bibliography
Index.
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