The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde - Criticism: Historical Criticism, Intentions, the Soul of Man

Zusatztext The most important edition of Wilde to have been issued since Ross's monumental labour of love...extensive and expert annotations... the notes and the introduction offer us an idea of the extraordinary breadth and depth of Wilde's literary culture. Criticism is, in other words, a painstaking reconstruction of the historical context in which Wilde's writings were conceived and produced. Informationen zum Autor Josephine M. Guy is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Nottingham. She has written widely on nineteenth-century literary and cultural history, including studies of the mid-Victorian social-problem novel and late nineteenth-century British avant-garde movements. In collaboration with Ian Small, she has published two studies of Oscar Wilde's writing practices, as well as an account of the disciplinary status of English Studies. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung Volume IV of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first variorum edition of Wilde's best-known critical essays - those published in Intentions and The Soul of Man, as well as his graduate essay The Rise of Historical Criticism (re-titled here Historical Criticism). Inhaltsverzeichnis Organizational Principles of Volumes IV-VI in the Complete Works Introduction A Note on the Texts and the Textual Collation Abbreviations and Symbols HISTORICAL CRITICISM INTENTIONS THE SOUL OF MAN A Note on the Commentary Commentary Appendix Index

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• Autori: Josephine M. Guy, Josephine M. (EDT) Guy, Oscar Wilde
• Con la collaborazione di: Josephine M. Guy (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.10.2007
• EAN: 9780198119616
• ISBN: 978-0-19-811961-6
• Pagine: 604
• Dimensioni: 146 mm x 216 mm x 38 mm
• Serie: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde; Complete Works Oscar Wilde; Complete Works Oscar Wilde; The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form