Picture of Dorian Gray, the, a Longman Cultural Edition

Name: Picture of Dorian Gray, the, a Longman Cultural Edition
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ISBN: 9780321427137

ISBN-10: 0321427130

ISBN-13: 9780321427137

Edition: 2007

Authors: Andrew Elfenbein, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde

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From Longmans new Cultural Editions Series, Oscar WildesThe Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Andrew Elfenbein, includes the novel and contextual materials from the era of Oscar Wilde.This edition of Oscar Wildes classic work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, highlights the novels modernity in both its form and its revolutionary content, and traces its links to modernist literature and the culture of modernity alike.Readers interested in Oscar Wilde.

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880

Andrew Elfenbein is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.



List of Illustrations


About Longman Cultural Editions


About This Edition


Introduction


Table of Dates


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)



Further Annotations


Victorian Reactions to The Picture of Dorian Gray


Reviews


Lippincott's Advertisement for The Picture of Dorian Gray



St. James's Gazette, and Wilde's responses



The Bookman



Parodies


from The Green Carnation



from The Autobiography of a Boy



Wilde's Trials


from Regina (Oscar Wilde) vs. John Douglas (Marquess of Queensberry)


Aestheticism


"Conclusion" to The Renaissance



from Culture and Anarchy



from The Decay of Lying



from A Rebours (Against the Grain)



Science


from The Descent of Man



from "Right and Wrong: The Scientific Ground of their Distinction"



from "Science and Culture"



from The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind



Love between Men


from "A Problem in Greek Ethics"



from "The Greek Spirit in Modern Literature"



from Sexual Inversion



Works Cited in the Notes


Further Reading