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Oscar Wilde

2018
Unlike his mentor Pater, Wilde never wrote an essay on ‘Style’, but this chapter argues that Wilde’s career as essayist, playwright, poet, and intellectual provocateur hinges on his advocacy of style as both instrument and end in itself. A self-conscious stylist in all things, Wilde’s work creates a dizzying hall of mirrors which undermines mirror ...
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Mr. Oscar Wilde on Mr. Oscar Wilde

1979
I found Mr. Oscar Wilde (writes a Representative)1 making ready to depart on a short visit to Algiers,2 and reading—of course, nothing so obvious as a time-table, but a French newspaper which contained an account of the first night of ‘The [sic] Ideal Husband’ and its author’s appearance after the play.
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Oscar Wilde

Blackfriars, 1927
For the sake of those—perhaps the bulk of our readers—to whom the name of Wilde is only a faint memory, we may venture to say, with the help of D.N.B., that Oscar O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, wit and dramatist, born in Dublin on October 15th, 1856, was the younger son of Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, who married, in 1851, Jane Francisca Elgee, a ...
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Oscar Wilde

The Modern Language Review, 1991
John Stokes, Peter Raby
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Oscar Wilde

South Atlantic Review, 1990
Douglas Fowler, Richard Ellmann
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Oscar Wilde

Books Ireland, 1976
Ida Grehan, H. Montgomery Hyde
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Oscar Wilde

2016
While Oscar Wilde’s plays—particularly his comedies—have often been read in terms of politics of gender identity and social class, it has not often been observed that they were also responding to a sense of political crisis in the 1890s. This chapter unravels the traces of a wider geopolitics in Wilde’s plays, extending beyond London or Dublin.
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