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Article: Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century. By JOSEPHINE M. GUY and IAN SMALL. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. x + 314 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].
How may we re-evaluate Oscar Wilde, a century on from his death, when his theatrical mask still takes centre stage and his (self-)imposed marginality continues to dictate the master narrative of how his writings are read? Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small aim to 'piece together the material circumstances of Wilde's literary production' by paying meticulous attention to the economic forces that shaped his career--those aspects of the creative process ...