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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674271821 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
824.8 |
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WIL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Wilde, Oscar |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The critical writings of Oscar Wilde : an annotated selection |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Harvard University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Cambridge : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
vi,386 p. ; |
| Other physical details |
ill., |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
29.95 |
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$ |
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86.30 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Though he is primarily acclaimed today for his drama and fiction, Oscar Wilde was also one of the greatest critics of his generation. Annotated and introduced by Wilde scholar Nicholas Frankel, this unique collection reveals Wilde as a writer who transformed criticism, giving the genre new purpose, injecting it with style and wit, and reorienting it toward the kinds of social concerns that still occupy our most engaging cultural commentators. "Criticism is itself an art," Wilde wrote, and The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde demonstrates this philosophy in action. Readers will encounter some of Wilde's most quotable writings, such as "The Decay of Lying," which famously avers that "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates life." But Frankel also includes lesser-known works like "The American Invasion," a witty celebration of modern femininity, and "Aristotle at Afternoon Tea," in which Wilde deftly (and anonymously) carves up his former tutor's own criticism. The essays, reviews, dialogues, and epigrams collected here cover an astonishing range of themes: literature, of course, but also fashion, politics, masculinity, cuisine, courtship, marriage-the breadth of Victorian England. If today's critics address such topics as a matter of course, it is because Wilde showed that they could. It is hard to imagine a twenty-first-century criticism without him. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Illusion |
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Socialism |
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American Invasion |
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England Social life |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Frankel, Nicholas |
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ed. |
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Books |