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The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde

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Editor: Peter Raby, Homerton College, Cambridge

Merlin Holland, Regenia Gagnier, Stephen Calloway, Karl Beckson, Bobby Fong, John Stokes, Lawrence Danson, Jerusha McCormack, Joseph Donohue, Peter Raby, Russell Jackson, Kerry Powell, Joseph Bristow, Richard Allen Cave, Joel Kaplan, Declan Kiberd

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The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theatre'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. Further chapters also examine Wilde and the Victorians and his image as a Dandy. Part Two looks at Wilde's essential work as playwright and general writer, including his poetry, critiques, and fiction, and provides detailed analysis of such key works as Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest among others. The third group of essays examines the themes and factors which shaped Wilde's work and includes Wilde and his view of the Victorian woman, Wilde's sexual identities, and interpreting Wilde on stage. This 1997 volume also contains a detailed chronology of Wilde's work, a guide to further reading, and illustrations from important productions.
- Includes opening essay by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson
- All essays commissioned for this Companion
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'The Cambridge Companion is successful in that it acts as a good guide for scholar and amateur alike to the diversity and complexity of Wilde's work and to the research currently being carried out by scholars on Wilde. Raby does a good job of balancing all the different research interests of the essayists without giving undue weight to any one view, or to any one aspect of Wilde's œuvre. This book offers an essential guide to Wilde scholarship.' The Wildean
'The Cambridge Companion (a particularly refreshing collection of essays) 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 so many works of scholarly inquiry and speculation.' Los Angeles Times
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- contains: 20 b/w illus.
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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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Editor
Peter Raby, Homerton College, Cambridge
Contributors
Merlin Holland, Regenia Gagnier, Stephen Calloway, Karl Beckson, Bobby Fong, John Stokes, Lawrence Danson, Jerusha McCormack, Joseph Donohue, Peter Raby, Russell Jackson, Kerry Powell, Joseph Bristow, Richard Allen Cave, Joel Kaplan, Declan Kiberd