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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Longman Cultural Editions

Autor Oscar Wilde, Andrew Elfenbein
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2006
From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Oscar Wilde's "The 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. Previous editions of the novel have only seen it in a late Victorian context, or as an extension of the aesthetic theories of Walter Pater and the art for art's sake movement. As presented in this new edition, however, the freshness and originality of the book emerges, along with its strong social messages. The book is a pastiche of genres that propels nineteenth-century realism into twentieth-century modernism ahead of its own time. Wilde's novel offers a myth for modernity whose hold on the cultural imagination has only strengthened over time-Dorian Gray's uncanny bond with his own portrait underscores the loss of selfhood everyone experiences in a world of images and copies, paves the way for the discourses of homosexuality and the understanding of lifestyle as identity so current today, and provides clues to the mysteries of modern ethics and politics. The edition also emphasizes the role of gender and the rise of female emancipation underlying the Sybil Vane subplot, a focus on women that intensifies the book's relevance to modern transformations of men and women alike. "
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780321427137
ISBN-10: 0321427130
Pagini: 345
Dimensiuni: 142 x 210 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Pearson
Seria Longman Cultural Editions

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Descriere

From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Oscar Wilde's The 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.
Previous editions of the novel have only seen it in a late Victorian context, or as an extension of the aesthetic theories of Walter Pater and the “art for art's sake” movement. As presented in this new edition, however, the freshness and originality of the book emerges, along with its strong social messages. The book is a pastiche of genres that propels nineteenth-century realism into twentieth-century modernism ahead of its own time. Wilde's novel offers a myth for modernity whose hold on the cultural imagination has only strengthened over time-Dorian Gray's uncanny bond with his own portrait underscores the loss of selfhood everyone experiences in a world of images and copies, paves the way for the discourses of homosexuality and the understanding of lifestyle as identity so current today, and provides clues to the mysteries of modern ethics and politics. The edition also emphasizes the role of gender and the rise of female emancipation underlying the Sybil Vane subplot, a focus on women that intensifies the book's relevance to modern transformations of men and women alike.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
 
About Longman Cultural Editions
 
About This Edition
 
Introduction
 
Table of Dates
 
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
 
Contexts
 

    Textual Issues
        
        The Two Versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray
        from Chapter 1 (1890, 1891)
        from Chapter 7 (1890) and Chapter 9 (1891)
        from Chapter 10 (1890) and Chapter 12 (1891)
        from Chapter 13 (1890) and Chapter 20 (1891)
 
        Chapter 11:  Further Annotations
 
    Victorian Reactions to The Picture of Dorian Gray
 
        Reviews
        Ward, Lock, and Co., Lippincott's Advertisement for The Picture of Dorian Gray
        Samuel Henry Jeyes, St. James's Gazette and Wilde's responses
        Walter Pater, The Bookman
 
        Paradies
        Robert Smythe Hichens, from The Green Carnation
        George Slythe Street, from The Autobiography of a Boy
 
        Wilde's Trials
        from Regina (Oscar Wilde) vs. John Douglas (Marquess of Queensberry)
 
        Aestheticism
        Walter Pater, "Conclusion" to The Renaissance
        Mathew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy
        Oscar Wilde, from The Decay of Lying
        Joris-Karl Huysmans, from A Rebours (Against the Grain)
 
        Science
        Charles Darwin, from The Descent of Man
        William Kingdon Clifford, from "Right and Wrong:  The Scientific Ground of their Distinction"
        Thomas Henry Huxley, from "Science and Culture"
        Henry Maudsley, from The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind
 
        Love between Men
        John Addington Symonds, from "A Problem in Greek Ethics"
        Richard St. John Tyrwhitt, from "The Greek Spirit in Modern Literature"
        Havelock Ellis, from Sexual Inversion
 
        Works Cited in the Notes
 
        Further Reading
 
        
 
 
 
                       

Notă biografică

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.

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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Longman Cultural Edition

Editor: Andrew Elfenbein
Series Editor: Susan J. Wolfson
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Caracteristici

  • Detailed footnotes on each page annotate unfamiliar references.
  • First reviews of the novel illustrate the controversy of its time.
  • Excerpts on Victorian aestheticism and Victorian sexuality illuminate the novel’s response to Victorian aestheticism and Wilde’s representation of sexuality.
  • Introductory chronology of dates places the novel in historical context.
  • Editor’s introduction offers a critical analysis of the text.
  • Parodies of the text demonstrate humor in aestheticism.