The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Volume IV: Criticism: Historical Criticism, Intentions, The Soul of Man
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- Edition number and title :The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 September 2007
- ISBN 9780198119616
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages702 pages
- Size 220x140x35 mm
- Weight 936 g
- Language English 0
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Volume IV of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first variorum edition of Wilde's best-known critical essays - those published in Intentions and The Soul of Man, as well as his graduate essay The Rise of Historical Criticism (re-titled here Historical Criticism).
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Volume IV of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first variorum edition of Wilde's major critical writing; it includes the critical essays which were re-published in book-form in his life-time - that is, those anthologised in Intentions and The Soul of Man - as well as his graduate essay usually known by the title The Rise of Historical Criticism, but which this volume titles Historical Criticism. The Introduction gives a detailed account of the composition of each of the essays: it gives a new explanation for the relationship between the 'The Decay of Lying' and 'Pen, Pencil, and Poison' (arguing that they are best understood as companion pieces); it provides the first concrete demonstration that Wilde did, on occasions, knowingly 'copy' his own work; and it reveals that substantial cuts were made to some of Wilde's essays (without his full consent) by the periodical editors with whom he worked. The edition also provides, for the first time, a full collation of the textual variants between the published versions of Wilde's essays (that is, both book and periodical), and all extant manuscripts; in addition it establishes a new, authoritative text for Historical Criticism, based on an examination of the original manuscript, which differs significantly from that printed by Robert Ross in his 1908 Collected Edition (and subsequently reprinted in the Collins Complete Works). The annotation to the edition reveals the full extent of Wilde's 'borrowings' both from his own work, and from other writers; it also reveals that much of Historical Criticism is in fact paraphrasing or translating well-known classical texts, and that the some of denseness of the argument is due to ellipses in Wilde's text that were disguised by earlier editors.
The most important edition of Wilde to have been issued since Ross's monumental labour of love...extensive and expert annotations... the notes and the introduction offer us an idea of the extraordinary breadth and depth of Wilde's literary culture. Criticism is, in other words, a painstaking reconstruction of the historical context in which Wilde's writings were conceived and produced.
Table of Contents:
Organizational Principles of Volumes IV-VI in the Complete Works
Introduction
A Note on the Texts and the Textual Collation
Abbreviations and Symbols
HISTORICAL CRITICISM
INTENTIONS
THE SOUL OF MAN
A Note on the Commentary
Commentary
Appendix
Index
