Picture of Dorian Gray, The, A Longman

From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Oscar Wilde'sThe Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Andrew Elfenbein, includes the novel and contextual materials from the era of Oscar Wilde.This edition of Oscar Wilde's classic work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, highlights the novel's modernity in both its form and its revolutionary content, and traces its links to modernist literature and the culture of modernity alike.Readers interested in Oscar Wilde.

Andrew Elfenbein is the Morse-Alumni Distinguish Teaching Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He works on 18th- and 19th-century British literature, gender and sexuality studies, the history of English, and cognitive approaches to reading.

List of Illustrations

vii

About Longman Cultural Editions

ix

About This Edition

xi

Introduction

xv

Table of Dates

xxvii

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

1

(300)

Contexts

221

(2)

Textual Issues

223

(16)

The Two Versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray

223

(1)

from Chapter 1 (1890, 1891)

224

(2)

from Chapter 7 (1890) and Chapter 9 (1891)

226

(2)

from Chapter 10 (1890) and Chapter 12 (1891)

228

(3)

from Chapter 13 (1890) and Chapter 20 (1891)

231

(1)

Further Annotations

232

(7)

Victorian Reactions to The Picture of Dorian Gray

239

(31)

Reviews

239

(1)

Ward, Lock, and Co., Lippincott's Advertisement for The Picture of Dorian Gray

239

(1)

St. James's Gazette, and Wilde's responses

240

(15)

Samuel Henry Jeyes

The Bookman

255

(3)

Walter Pater

Parodies

258

(1)

from The Green Carnation

259

(1)

Robert Smythe Hichens

from The Autobiography of a Boy

260

(2)

George Slythe Street

Wilde's Trials

262

(2)

from Regina (Oscar Wilde) vs. John Douglas (Marquess of Queensberry)

264

(6)

Aestheticism

270

(15)

``Conclusion'' to The Renaissance

272

(4)

Walter Pater

from Culture and Anarchy

276

(3)

Matthew Arnold

from The Decay of Lying

279

(2)

Oscar Wilde

from A Rebours (Against the Grain)

281

(4)

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Science

285

(8)

from The Descent of Man

286

(2)

Charles Darwin

from ``Right and Wrong: The Scientific Ground of their Distinction''

288

(1)

William Kingdon Clifford

from ``Science and Culture''

289

(1)

Thomas Henry Huxley

from The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind

290

(3)

Henry Maudsley

Love between Men

293

(8)

from ``A Problem in Greek Ethics''

294

(2)

John Addington Symonds

from ``The Greek Spirit in Modern Literature''

296

(1)

Richard St. John Tyrwhitt

from Sexual Inversion

297

(4)

Havelock Ellis

Works Cited in the Notes

301

(4)

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Picture of Dorian Gray, The, A Longman Cultural Edition

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