Oscar Wilde / Ruth Robbins.

By: Robbins, Ruth, 1965-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: 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	EWU Library Reserve Section	Non-fiction	828.809 ROO 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		24151
Text	EWU Library 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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