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"Picture of Dorian Gray" - What the World Thinks of Me (Hardcover)
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"Picture of Dorian Gray" - What the World Thinks of Me (Hardcover)
Series: Twayne's Masterwork Studies
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In some ways prefiguring the dramas in its creator's life, The
Picture of Dorian Gray is a fictional model of the moral
contradictions pervading late Victorian society. Oscar Wilde's
Faustian tale of a beautiful young man trading his soul for the
promise of eternal youth sparked controversy upon its appearance in
1890, a decade in which Wilde experienced the heights and depths of
notoriety as society's wit and dandy, as its chief spokesman for
the aesthetic "art for art's sake" movement, and ultimately as its
embittered and destitute outcast. In The Picture of Dorian Gray:
"What the World Thinks Me", Michael Patrick Gillespie contributes a
penetrating analysis to Wildean studies, a volume at once
accessible to students and valuable to scholars. Taking up "The
Extratextual Milieu", Gillespie delineates the historical and
literary contexts in which Dorian Gray appeared and traces the
critical reception to it; offering close "Readings and Rereadings",
he examines elements of imagination, ethics, aesthetics, and
sensuality in the work. He further demonstrates that the
narrative's appeal to a multitude of viewpoints allows for broad
interpretations of the novel, prompting critics to see in it a
range of authorial concerns and visions. Written with care,
thoroughness, and grace, The Picture of Dorian Gray: "What the
World Thinks Me" will be welcomed by students, librarians, and
scholars. Enhancing the study's usefulness are a chronology of
Wilde's life and works, a bibliography, and notes and references.
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