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Oscar Wilde / Ruth Robbins.

By: Robbins, Ruth, 1965-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Writers' lives (Continuum (Firm))Publication details: London ; New York : Continuum, c2011. Description: ix, 193 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780826498519 (hbk); 0826498515 (hbk); 9780826498526 (pbk); 0826498523 (pbk)Subject(s): Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- BiographyDDC classification: 828.809 LOC classification: PR5824 | .R57 2011Online resources: WorldCat details
Contents:
Introduction -- Poems -- Prose: critical -- Prose: short fictional -- Prose: long fictional -- Plays -- Prison writings.
Summary: Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically during the twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials for homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s and '90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English. Ruth Robbins introduces Wilde through a focus on his manipulations of genre and sets Wilde's life and work in its literary and cultural context.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Text Text Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU
Reserve Section 		Non-fiction 828.809 ROO 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C-1 Not For Loan 24151
Text Text Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU
Circulation Section 		Non-fiction 828.809 ROO 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C-2 Available 24152
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-188) and index.

Introduction --
Poems --
Prose: critical --
Prose: short fictional --
Prose: long fictional --
Plays --
Prison writings.

Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically during the twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials for homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s and '90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English. Ruth Robbins introduces Wilde through a focus on his manipulations of genre and sets Wilde's life and work in its literary and cultural context.

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