Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780230600232
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Plays & playwrights: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ireland; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 19th century; Authors in literature; Authors, Irish, in literature; English fiction; History and criticism
Description: "This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries. Focusing on Wilde's relationships with many of these writers, Kingston examines and critiques 'Wildean' portraits by such celebrated authors as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw and Bram Stoker, as well as some lesser-known writers. Many fascinating, little-known biographical and literary connections are revealed. While this work will be of significant interest to scholars of Wilde, it is also written in a clear, accessible style which will appeal to the non-academic reader with a general interest in Wilde or the late Victorian period."--Jacket.