Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781441146724
1441146725
9781441167460
1441167463
9780826498526
0826498523
9780826498519
9781474211499
1474211496
0826498515
9780826498519
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically during the twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials for homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s and 90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English. Ruth Robbins introduces Wilde through a focus on his manipulations of genre and sets Wilde's life and work in its literary and cultural context, including the history of Victorian drama; the contexts of criticism in the period; poetry as post-romantic and pre-modernist mode of expression; the uses and subversions of fictional forms in his work; and his subversion of the autobiographical mode in his prison letter De Profundis. This comprehensive and readable introduction offers readers and students a lively and informative guide to Wilde's significance in the context of his own time and his extensive afterlife in literature, criticism and popular culture"--Publisher website.
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| Other form: | Print version: Robbins, Ruth. Oscar Wilde. London : Continuum International Publishing Group, ©2011 9780826498526
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| Standard no.: | 10.5040/9781474211499
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