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A selective list of online literary criticism for the novelist and playwright Oscar Wilde, favoring signed articles by known scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites Main Page | 19th-Century Novel | 19th-Century Writers | About LiteraryHistory.com Literary CriticismAlexander, Jonathan, and Deborah Meem. "Dorian Gray, Tom Ripley, and the Queer Closet" A discussion of Oscar Wilde's Portrait of Dorian Gray and Patricia Highsmiths's novels, "both Highsmith's and Wilde's novels describe how their heroes attempt to, in Dorian's words, 'multiply their personalities.' They are characters who want to be other than what they are." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 5.4 (2003) Alkalay-Gut, Karen. Scholarly article on the central act of murder which opens The Ballad of Reading Gaol. In Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 3, Fall 1997, The Thing He Loves: Murder as Aesthetic Experience in The Ballad of Reading Gaol (removed) Brake, Laurel. The Discourses of Journalism: "Arnold and Pater" Again-and Wilde On attitudes towards romanticism and poetry in Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. From Pater in the 1990s Clausson, Nils. "'Culture and Corruption': Paterian Self-Development versus Gothic Degeneration in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray" On Dorian Gray's connection with Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurian and the Gothic tradition. Papers on Language and Literature, Fall 2003 Eberle-Sinatra, Michael. A noteworthy syllabus considers Dorian Gray in the context of the Victorian legacy of the Romantic Gothic, by Michael Eberle-Sinatra Ellmann, Richard. Letter exchange between Susan Sontag and Richard Ellmann in NYReview of Books concerning Wilde, 1977. Fisher, Trevor. Great Lovers Episode 6: Oscar and Bossie On National Radio, Australia, 8/31/03. Transcript of interview with Trevor Fisher. Fong, Bobby and Karl Beckson, eds. Introduction by Ian Small. Publisher's blurb for The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Volume I: Poems and Poems in Prose. (Oxford UP: 2000) Named Outstanding Academic Book of 2001 by Choice Foster, David. "Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, and the rhetoric of agency," Examination of Wilde's rhetorical strategies and motives in De Profundis. "De Profundis reproduces that fundamental conflict between power and victimization underlying the social identity Wilde had come to inhabit as an active homosexual. In the text he casts himself alternately as a tragic protagonist undone by hubris and a victim overwhelmed by repressive social forces. It is the tension between these roles that destabilizes the tone of DeProfundis and creates abrupt shifts of mood. Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2001 Frankel, Nick. Scholarly article discusses Wilde's national and cultural allegiance, whether English or Irish, in connection with his poetry. In Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 2, Summer 1997, "Ave Imperatrix": Oscar Wilde and the Poetry of Englishness (removed by VP) Jays, David. "Wilde disappointment" Examines the contemporary image of Wilde as "the first modern celebrity and a queer radical before his time; popular entertainer and harbinger of the avant-garde; Irish outsider and English wit." New Statesman, Sept 25, 2000 Maguire, Robert J. Scholarly article from Victorian Studies, "Oscar Wilde And The Dreyfus Affair" (removed by VS) Marcovitch, Heather. "The Princess, Persona, and Subjective Desire: A Reading of Oscar Wilde's Salome," Article contends that Salome extends Wilde's critique of aestheticism begun in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2004 Menand, Louis. Entry on Oscar Wilde from the Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Includes a short secondary bibliography Musser, Charles. "The Hidden and the Unspeakable: On Theatrical Culture, Oscar Wilde and Ernst Lubitsch's Lady Windermere's Fan" source uncertain, may not be public Raby, Peter, ed. Publisher's blurb for The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde (Cambridge UP: 1997) Sandulescu, C. George, ed. Publisher's blurb for Rediscovering Oscar Wilde (Colin Smythe) Siegel, Sandra F. "Oscar Wilde: The Spectacle of Criticism" An introduction to the career of Oscar Wilde, in the Cornell Univ. Newsletter, Newsletter, Spring 1996 Vol. 17 No. 2 Small, Ian. Publisher's blurb for Oscar Wilde: Recent Research (ELT Press) Small, Ian. Publisher's blurb for Oscar Wilde Revalued: An Essay on New Materials and Methods of Research (ELT Press) Varty, Anne. A substantial introduction to Oscar Wilde from the Literary Encyclopedia. Includes a complete primary bibliography. Introduction & Web SitesOScholars, a website for a group of journals and web pages devoted to Oscar Wilde, John Ruskin, Vernon Lee, George Bernard Shaw, George Moore, Michael Field, Arts & Crafts, The New Woman, and more. Article on Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson, in the UK Guardian, Nov. 24, 2000. "The 10 most popular misconceptions about Oscar Wilde" from the UK Guardian, 3/26/05 George Landow's Victorian Web section on Oscar Wilde has essays on Wilde's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the cultural background. Manuscripts of Oscar Wilde at the UCLA Library. "The rare book library boasts the world's largest public collection of works by and about Wilde and has long served as a Mecca for Wilde scholars." An online exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the trials of Wilde, using visual materials, from NYU library The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures maintains an active web site and newsletter for publications and news on Irish authors, including Wilde "Wilde, Society, and Society Drama," by Cary M. Mazer. Production notes on The Importance of Being Earnest. Some interesting facts and photos relating to Wilde's American lecture tour in 1882 to San Antonio, Texas. From the web site Literary San Antonio by Paul McQuien and Kim G. Hochmeister, at San Antonio College. Site devoted to the 1998 film on Wilde produced by Samuelson Entertainment. Web site for The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, a semi-annual, refereed journal covering Pre-Raphaelite, aesthetic, and decadent art, culture, and literature. The web site currently provides a list of article titles back to 1987 Brief recommended secondary reading list for Oscar Wilde, from Univ. of Virginia etext library "Arrested development," A prison doctor reflects on the continuing accuracy of Wilde's description of prison life in The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Theodore Dalrymple, in The New Criterion, June 2002 (moved or removed). Main Page | 19th-Century Novel | 19th-Century Writers | About LiteraryHistory.com |
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