FOR FURTHER READING

WRITINGS OF OSCAR WILDE

The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Richard Ellmann. New York: Random House, 1969.

The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis. New York: Henry Holt, 2000.

The Complete Shorter Fiction. Edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Vyvyan Holland. London: Collins, 1966.

The Difinitive Four-Act Version of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Edited by Ruth Berggren. New York: Vanguard, 1987.

The Importance of Being Earnest. Edited by Russell Jackson. New Mermaid Series. New York: W W. Norton, 1980.

The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays. Edited by Kenneth Krauss. New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2003.

Selected Journalism. Edited by Anya Clayworth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

WORKS RELATED TO WILDE’S

LIFE AND WRITING

Beckson, Karl, ed. Oscar Wilde: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Oscar Wilde. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1985.

Brown, Julia Prewitt. Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of Art. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Calloway, Stephen. “Wilde and the Dandyism of the Senses,” in The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde, edited by Peter Raby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 34—54.

Danson, Lawrence. Wilde’s Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

Douglas, Lord Alfred. The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas. London: Martin Seeker, 1929.

Dowling, Linda. The Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996.

—, ed. The Soul of Man under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, by Oscar Wilde. With a critical introduction and explanatory notes. London: Penguin Books, 2001.

Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

Eltis, Sos. Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

Fletcher, Ian, and John Stokes. “Oscar Wilde,” in Anglo-Irish Literature: A Review of Research, edited by Richard J. Finneran. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1976.

. “Oscar Wilde.” In Recent Research on Anglo-Irish Writers, edited by Richard J. Finneran. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1983.

Frye, Northrop. The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.

Gagnier, Regenia. Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986.

Gide, Andre. Oscar Wilde. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Philosophical Library, 1949.

Hall, N. John. Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.

Holland, Merlin, ed. The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of the Trial of Oscar Wilde vs. John Douglas, Marquess of Queensberry, 1895. With introduction and commentary. Foreword by John Mortimer. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Holland, Vyvyan. Son of Oscar Wilde. 1954. Foreword by Merlin Holland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Hollander, Elizabeth. “Oscar Wilde,” in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, edited by Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, vol. 4, pp. 447—453.

Hyde, H. Montgomery. Lord Alfred Douglas: A Biography. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985. —. Carson. London: Heinemann, 1953.

Kiberd, Declan. “Oscar Wilde: The Resurgence of Lying,” in The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde, pp. 276—294.

Marcus, Steven. The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England. 1966. New York: Meridian, 1974.

Martin, R. B. The Triumph of Wit: A Study of Victorian Comic Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.

McCormack, Jerusha, ed. Wilde the Irishman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.

Norman, Marc, and Tom Stoppard. Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay. New York: Hyperion, 1998.

Pater, Walter. Plato and Platonism. 1893. Edited by Martin Golding. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 2005.

—. The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry. Edited by D. L. Hill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. (Hill includes the Conclusion, which had been dropped from the 1877 reprint of the 1873 edition, originally titled Studies in the History of the Renaissance.)

Pearson, Hesketh. The Life of Oscar Wilde. London: Methuen, 1954.

Raby, Peter. Oscar Wilde. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

—, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Sainsbury, R. M. Paradoxes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Schoenbaum, S. Shakespeare’s Lives. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.

Smith, Phillip E., and Michael S. Helfand, eds. Oscar Wilde’s Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Stokes, John. Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles, and Imitations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Stoppard, Tom. The Invention of Love. New York: Grove Press, 1998.

Symons, Arthur. A Study of Oscar Wilde. London: Charles Sawyer, 1930.

White, Terence de Vere. The Parents of Oscar Wilde: Sir William and Lady Wilde. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1967.