The Picture of Dorian Gray in the Twenty-First Century
New Essays on Oscar Wilde's Classic Novel
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 November 2025
- ISBN 9780190659028
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 25x177x254 mm
- Weight 750 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 785
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Short description:
This collection of new essays devoted to Oscar Wilde's classic novel presents new critical work by prominent scholars that deal with many aspects of the famed novel. Essays range from literary influences on the novel and its controversial early reception to its afterlife in literature, film, dance, photography, theatre, and television. It is also one of the most famous gay or queer literary texts of all time. Wilde's novel has been translated into numerous languages and is a work with a global following. Beautifully illustrated, this collection, edited by Richard Kaye, offers multiple perspectives on Wilde's novel in fourteen highly readable essays.
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This collection of new essays devoted to Oscar Wilde's classic novel presents new critical work by prominent scholars that deal with numerous aspects of the famed novel. Essays range from early literary influences on the novel and its controversial early reception to its afterlife in literature, film, dance, photography, theatre, and television.
In addition to considering Dorian Gray as an iconic queer work of fiction that daringly challenged late-Victorian literary practices, the volume explores Wilde's novel in terms of the history of the European novel and the book's innovations as a gothic, supernatural work that defied the conventions of nineteenth-century realism. Along with striking illustrations of the novel since its publication --including images from popular adaptations-- the volume includes never-before translated early reviews of the novel in the European press along with an unpublished parody of Wilde's novel in the form of an "examination paper" by the English writer Max Beerbohm. Edited by Richard Kaye, this volume offers multiple and fascinating perspectives on Oscar Wilde's classic in fourteen highly readable essays.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Haunting of Dorian Gray
The Precedents, Sources, and Literary Contexts of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray and the Aesthetic Tradition: Faithful Allusion, Perilous Misquotation
The Picture That Failed, or the Light of Dorian Gray
"What Never Dies": The Picture of Dorian Gray and Its Afterlife in French Literature and Art
The Visual Imagination of The Picture of Dorian Gray
Picturing Dorian: Temporality, Abstraction, and Modernity in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Illustrating Dorian Gray: The Contingent Ephemerality of Beauty
Dorian Gray's Philosophical, Cultural, and Erotic Entanglements
The Vitality of Dorian Gray: Darwinism, Philosophy, Life
"A Form of Reverie, a Malady of Dreaming": Dorian Gray, Personality, and Mass Culture
Dorian Gray's Generic Hybridity and the Aesthetics of Queer Form
The Formal Vicissitudes of a Decadent Novel
Exquisite Fantasy: Language and Anti-Mimesis in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Fin-de-Siècle Feelings: Melodrama and the Aesthetics and Ethics of Emotion in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Most Decadent Chapter: Ornamentation, Influence, and the Challenge to Realism in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray's Afterlife in Fiction, Film, Theater, Dance, and Performance
The Vienna "Dorian Gray Epidemic" of 1907: Theatrical Distortion, Critical Dissent, and the First Stagings of Wilde's Novel
Red Herrings and Yellow Birds: The 1945 Hollywood Film The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray Forever: Decadence, Glamor, and the Vicissitudes of Pop Culture Adaptation
