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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume II: De Profundis; Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis (Hardcover)
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume II: De Profundis; Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis (Hardcover)
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This volume presents for the first time the complete textual
history of one of the most famous love letters ever written.
Addressed to Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and composed in
Reading Gaol, it was later given the title 'De Profundis' by
Wilde's friend and literary executor, Robert Ross. It was Ross's
severely abridged and sanitized version, published in 1905 and
again 1908, which inaugurated the tradition of seeing De Profundis
as the apologia pro sua vita of a broken man. This edition takes
account of this complex heritage by arguing that Wilde's prison
document may be seen not just as the basis of a letter (a typed
copy of which may have been sent to Douglas) but also as an
unfinished literary work which he intended for public consumption
at some future date. Such a case is made by placing in the public
domain, often for the first time, a number of different works,
derived from different texts, each of which bears witness to
Wilde's multiple intentions for his prison document. These texts
comprise: the manuscript held in the British Library; the version
of Wilde's letter published by his son, Vyvyan Holland, from a
typescript bequeathed to him by Robert Ross; hitherto unpublished
witnesses to that typescript; and Ross's editions, collated with
each other. The commentary to this edition - again for the first
time - sets Wilde's story of his own life in 'De Profundis' against
the testimony of other players in his drama, including, most
importantly, that of Douglas. In so doing it exposes the partial
nature of Wilde's narrative, as well as the personal obsessions
which animated it. The commentary also demonstrates a hitherto
unnoticed element of Wilde's work, the extent and nature of its
richly layered intertextuality and its similarity, in its
compositional practices, to many of his earlier works.
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