Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray

Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 (Author). Elfenbein, Andrew. (Added Author).

Summary: "Each Longman Cultural edition consists of the complete text of a key literary work, supplemented by helpful annotations and followed by contextual materials that reveal the conversations and controversies of its historical movement." --back cover

Record details

ISBN: 0321427130
Physical Description: print
xxxv, 310 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : Pearson Longman, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891 -- Contexts -- Textual Issues -- The Two Versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray -- From Chapter 1 (1890, 1891) -- From Chapter 7 (1890) and Chapter 9 (1891) -- From Chapter 10 (1890) and Chapter 12 (1891) -- From Chapter 13 (1890) and Chapter 20 (1891) -- Chapter 11. Further Annotations -- Victorian Reactions to The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Lippincott's Advertisement for The Picture of Dorian Gray / Ward, Lock, and Co. -- St. James's Gazette, and Wilde's responses / Samuel Henry Jeyes -- The Bookman / Walter Pater -- Parodies -- from The Green Carnation / Robert Smythe Hichens -- from The Autobiography of a Boy / George Slythe Street -- Wilde's Trials -- from Regina (Oscar Wilde) vs. John Douglas (Marquess of Queensberry) -- Aestheticism -- "Conclusion" to The Renaissance / Walter Pater -- from Culture and Anarchy / Matthew Arnold -- from The Decay of Lying / Oscar Wilde -- from A Rebours (Against the Grain) / Joris-Karl Huysmans -- Science -- from The Descent of Man / Charles Darwin -- from "Right and Wrong: The Scientific Ground of their Distinction" / William Kingdon Clifford -- from "Science and Culture" / Thomas Henry Huxley -- from The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind / Henry Maudsley -- Love between Men -- from "A Problem in Greek Ethics" / John Addington Symonds -- from "The Greek Spirit in Modern Literature" / Richard St. John Tyrwhitt -- from Sexual Inversion / Havelock Ellis -- Works Cited in the Notes.