Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks
A Portrait of Mind in the Making
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 April 2025
- ISBN 9780198920731
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 16x156x234 mm
- Weight 460 g
- Language English 656
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Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks, which was originally published in 1989, was the first publication of Oscar Wilde's Notebook on History and Philosophy and his Commonplace Book, which he began to keep while a student at Oxford between 1874 and 1879, will forever alter critical perceptions of Wilde's intentions and achievements.
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Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks, which was originally published in 1989, was the first publication of Oscar Wilde's Notebook on History and Philosophy and his Commonplace Book, which he began to keep while a student at Oxford between 1874 and 1879, will forever alter critical perceptions of Wilde's intentions and achievements. Containing records of his education and reading - quotations and paraphrases of other writers and Wilde's own analytical and descriptive notes, comments, and fragmentary drafts - the notebooks show the intellectual influences he absorbed while in his early twenties.
In a critical commentary the editors argue that from these sources Wilde developed a synthesis of Spencerian evolutionary theory and Hegelian philosophy that shaped his aesthetic and critical theories, his political ideals, and the themes of his most important fiction. Wilde's synthesis, the editors contend, incorporated the views of scientists and social scientists like T. H Huxley, Charles Darwin, W. K. Clifford, John Tyndall, E. B. Tylor, and Herbert Spencer, historians like H. T. Buckle, W. H. Lecky, and Ernest Renan, and the English Hegelians, Benjamin Jowett and William Wallace.
Using this synthesis, Wilde confronted the major controversies of late Victorian intellectual life: the relation of mind and matter in philosophy, the origin and development of culture, and the roles of artist and critic in the improvement of society.
In addition to scrupulous annotation, this book provides a description of the manuscripts, historical evidence for dating, an introduction that describes the intellectual influence of Wilde's parents and their circle in Dublin, and a commentary that identifies the sources in the notebooks and substantially reinterprets Wilde's criticism and fiction.
An insightful and original study that will appeal to Wilde scholars, literary critics, and intellectual historians of the 19th century, the book provides a fresh look into the intellectual development of Wilde and reveals him to be a learned, radical humanist whose artistic and intellectual growth occurred within, and is representative of, the transformation of English cultural criticism after Darwin.
Table of Contents:
A List of Scholarship on Sources and Corrections
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Collaboration
Contents
1. The Text, 1
1. The Context of the Text, 5
Wilde's Irish Education, 6
Wilde at Oxford: The Influence of F. Max Müller, 8
Wilde at Oxford: The Influence of John Ruskin, 10
Wilde at Oxford: Ruskin's Idealism Versus Pater's Materialism, 14
Wilde and the Oxford Hegelians, 17
Symonds, Pater, and Hegelian Aesthetics, 22
Herbert Spencer and the Metaphysics of Evolution, 27
W. K. Clifford and Moral Chemistry, 29
Thomas H. Huxley and the Idealism of a Materialist, 32
Wilde's Synthesis, 33
1. The Text as Context, 35
“Hélas” and the New Hellenism, 35
The “Rise,” the Notebooks, and Historical Criticism, 37
Dialectical Criticism after the “Rise,” 2
Wilde's Lectures in America, 46
Intentions and the Dialectical Method: “The Truth of Masks,” 53
Decay and Progress in “The Decay of Lying,” 58
The Con Artist as Critic: “Pen, Pencil and Poison,” 63
The Critical Spirit as World Spirit in “The Critic as Artist,” 66
Anarchy and Culture: The Evolutionary Turn of Wilde's Cultural Criticism, 77
History and Faith: Interpreting the Sonnets, 87
Conscience as Tribal Self in The Picture of Dorian Gray, 96
Utopian Conclusion, 104
1. Oscar Wilde, Commonplace Book, 107
1. Oscar Wilde, Notebook Kept at Oxford, 153
1. Notes to Commonplace Book, 175
1. Notes to Notebook Kept at Oxford, 202
Notes, 221
An Index of Proper Names and Subjects in the Commentary, 239
An Index of Proper Names and Subjects in Oscar Wilde's Commonpace Book, 247
An Index of Proper Names and Subjects in Oscar Wilde's College Notebook, 253
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