The Picture of Dorian Gray in the Twenty-First Century

New Essays on Oscar Wilde's Classic Novel. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 336 Seiten
ISBN 0190659033
EAN 9780190659035
Veröffentlicht 2. Oktober 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press

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Beschreibung

This collection of new essays devoted to Oscar Wilde's classic novel presents new critical work by prominent scholars that deal with many aspects of the famed novel. Essays range from literary influences on the novel and its controversial early reception to its afterlife in literature, film, dance, photography, theatre, and television. It is also one of the most famous gay or queer literary texts of all time. Wilde's novel has been translated into numerous languages and is a work with a global following. Beautifully illustrated, this collection, edited by Richard Kaye, offers multiple perspectives on Wilde's novel in fourteen highly readable essays.

Portrait

Richard A. Kaye is Professor of English at Hunter College and in the Ph.D. Program in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the editor of The D. H. Lawrence Review, the fifty-year old scholarly journal devoted to the British writer.

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