Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780198187288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 328 str.

Ian Small; Josephine M. Guy; Ian Small

Opis

A materialist account of Wilde's writing career, based on publishing contracts and other documentation as well as detailed evidence of how he composed, this book argues that Wilde was not driven by an oppositional politics, nor was he an aesthetic "purist." Rather, he was thoroughly immersed in the contemporary "commodification of culture" in which books became product. This study surveys his writing practices across the whole of the oeuvre, and radically reinterprets the significance of his revision and "plagiarism."

Recenzje

The book is extremely well written, and clear in its approach and aims.