Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically during the
twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials for
homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s and
90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English. Ruth
Robbins introduces Wilde through a focus on his manipulations of
genre and sets Wilde's life and work in its literary and cultural
context, including the history of Victorian drama; the contexts of
criticism in the period; poetry as post-romantic and pre-modernist
mode of expression; the uses and subversions of fictional forms in
his work; and his subversion of the autobiographical mode in his
prison letter De Profundis. This comprehensive and readable
introduction offers readers and students a lively and informative
guide to Wilde's significance in the context of his own time and
his extensive afterlife in literature, criticism and popular
culture.
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