Title: Oscar Wilde
First published: 1999
Description: "This book is a contribution both to the widespread revival of interest in Oscar Wilde, especially in his critical writings, and to literary criticism's debate over the nature of humanism."--BOOK JACKET. "The main question that confronts a reader is embarrassingly basic: what is Wilde finally saying? In the first part of this book, Bashford answers this question by defining precisely what theoretical tasks Wilde sets himself and then analyzing Wilde's efforts to achieve his goals."--BOOK JACKET.

"In the second half of Bashford's book, he looks at Wilde's criticism as an expression of humanism."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Criticism, Literature, Humanism, Knowledge, Wilde, oscar, 1854-1900, Knowledge and learning
Places: Great Britain
People: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR5827.L5 B37 1999