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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Volume VI: Journalism I (The ^AComplete Works of Oscar Wilde) - Hardcover
Synopsis
This volume of the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first volume of Wilde's journalism. Throughout the 1880s Oscar Wilde devoted the greater part of his creative energies to working as a professional journalist and he was prepared to write on a remarkable range of topics - from cookery books to lyric poetry, from classical translations to three-volume novels, from dress reform to transatlantic visitors. He also reviewed theatrical productions and art exhibitions of many kinds. Between 1887 and 1889 he edited the pioneering Woman's World magazine to which he contributed lengthy columns discussing literary and other matters of interest to an educated female readership.
This is the first comprehensive edition of Wilde's journalism since 1908. It includes all of his known contributions, both signed and anonymous, to periodicals and newspapers. Of the more than 150 items - reviews, articles, editorials - a significant number have been identified for the first time, while the authenticity of others previously thought to be by Wilde is questioned. An extensive commentary offers the sources for Wilde's extraordinary cultural knowledge and provides cross-references to his oeuvre as whole. In the case of the book reviews, the commentary indicates relevant pages and passages in the works under discussion.
Uniquely witty, intellectually acute, and socially aware Wilde's journalism not only displays the extensive reading and stylistic experimentation that prepared the way for his major works of the 1890s, it provides an essential record of the vibrant and rapidly changing journalistic culture in which he played a major part.
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About the Author
John Stokes has taught at the universities of Reading, Illinois and Warwick. Until 2008 he was Professor of Modern British Literature at King's College London. He has written widely on the culture of the fin-de-siecle as well as on theatre history of many periods and he has delivered many public lectures and conference papers at home and abroad.
Mark W. Turner is co-editor of the journal, Media History and is on the Board of Directors of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.
Review
"This long overdue edition of Wilde's journalism marks a watershed in our critical response to it... [T]he level of scholarship displayed by this edition is impressive." --Review 19
"These volumes are an excellent collection of Wilde's journalism that not only chronicle his journalistic career but also tell us much of British journalism in general in the late nineteenth century. ... [T]he editors have presented what is likely the closest we can get to what Wilde originally wrote.... [T]his is an excellent edition of Wilde's journalism and should be a crucial resource for students and scholars for decades to come." --Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretations
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 019811964X
- ISBN 13 9780198119647
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages496
- EditorStokes John, Turner Mark
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