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Article: Ian Small, Oscar Wilde Revalued: An Essay on New Materials and Methods of Research.(Art and Christhood: The Aesthetics of Oscar Wilde )(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- March 22, 1994
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Ian Small, Oscar Wilde Revalued: An Essay on New Materials and Methods of Research (ELT Press, U North Carolina P, 1993), 288 pp., $30.00 cloth.
Guy Willoughby, Art and Christhood: The Aesthetics of Oscar Wilde (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1993), 170 pp., $32.50 cloth.
For fifty years after his death in 1900, Oscar Wilde's reputation among many literary historians was mainly that of a sprightly wit and haughty homosexual. Serious critics tended to dismiss him as not fully worthy of all the attention he commanded. Given the public nature of his career, his trials and imprisonment, Wilde could hardly be ignored. His personality continues to captivate serious ...