The picture of Dorian Gray
The picture of Dorian Gray: authoritative texts, backgrounds, reviews and reactions, criticism Oscar Wilde, Michael Gillespie (Editor)
Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2007.
ISBN: 0393927547
DDC: 823.8
LCC: PR5819
Summary:
"This revised Norton Critical Edition, like its predecessor, is the
only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincott's and
the 1891 book version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Under the
editorial guidance of Wilde scholar Michael Patrick Gillespie,
students have the opportunity to read comparatively both published
versions of this controversial novel.".
""Backgrounds" and "Reviews and Reactions" allow readers to gauge The
Picture of Dorian Gray's sensational reception when the 1890 version
appeared and to consider the heated public debate over art and
morality that followed its publication. Joris-Karl Huysmans, Walter
Pater, and Oscar Wilde offer a sense of the diverse opinions on these
topics. Eight contemporary reviews and comments on the novel are
reprinted, among them four opinions from the St.
James's Gazette immediately after publication in 1890, each followed
by Oscar Wilde's vehement reply.".
""Criticism" includes seven new essays on the novel that reflect key
changes in interpretive theory in recent years and reveal the broad
range of perspectives associated with Wilde and The Picture of Dorian
Gray. Simon Joyce, Donald L. Lawler, Sheldon W. Liebman, Maureen
O'Connor, Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, John Paul Riquelme, and Michael
Patrick Gillespie provide their varied assessments. A Chronology and
a Selected Bibliography are also included."--BOOK JACKET.
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