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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume VII: Journalism II (Hardcover)
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume VII: Journalism II (Hardcover)
Series: Complete Works Oscar Wilde, VII
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This volume of the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the second
volume of Wilde's journalism. Throughout the 1880s Oscar Wilde
devoted the greater part of his creative energies to working as a
professional journalist and he was prepared to write on a
remarkable range of topics - from cookery books to lyric poetry,
from classical translations to three-volume novels, from dress
reform to transatlantic visitors. He also reviewed theatrical
productions and art exhibitions of many kinds. Between 1887 and
1889 he edited the pioneering Woman's World magazine to which he
contributed lengthy columns discussing literary and other matters
of interest to an educated female readership. This is the first
comprehensive edition of Wilde's journalism since 1908. It includes
all of his known contributions, both signed and anonymous, to
periodicals and newspapers. Of the more than 150 items - reviews,
articles, editorials - a significant number have been identified
for the first time, while the authenticity of others previously
thought to be by Wilde is questioned. An extensive commentary
offers the sources for Wilde's extraordinary cultural knowledge and
provides cross-references to his oeuvre as whole. In the case of
the book reviews, the commentary indicates relevant pages and
passages in the works under discussion. Uniquely witty,
intellectually acute, and socially aware Wilde's journalism not
only displays the extensive reading and stylistic experimentation
that prepared the way for his major works of the 1890s, it provides
an essential record of the vibrant and rapidly changing
journalistic culture in which he played a major part. This second
volume of journalism presents all of Wilde's journalistic writings
published between November 1887 and April 1895. It also contains a
section of 'Dubia', which contains items where a degree of
uncertainty regarding Wilde's authorship remains.
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