140701 assembled Cambridge Companion essay 1997 Jerusha McCormack WILDE'S FICTION(S) THE MIRROR OF DORIAN GRAY It is hard to say anything original about The Picture of Dorian Gray, largely because there is so little that is original in it.…
140701 assembled Cambridge Companion essay 1997 Jerusha McCormack WILDE'S FICTION(S) FRAMING SHAKESPEARE As is usual with Wilde's fictions, 'The Portrait of Mr W. H.' began as a recital. In his accustomed manner, one biographer remarked, W…
Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Oscar The name Oscar is a boy's name of English, Irish origin meaning "God spear, or deer-lover or champion warrior". Oscar has Irish and Norse roots—Norse Oscar comes from the Old English Osgar, a var…
Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854–1900) Owen Dudley Edwards 04 October 2012 https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29400 Boyhood and education, 1854–1874 Wilde's immediate family was more clerical than any of his fellow writers' of the…
140701 assembled Cambridge Companion essay 1997 Jerusha McCormack WILDE'S FICTION(S) TELLING TALES Wilde's first official expeditions into literary fiction are misleadingly slight. From 1887 onwards, he published a series of stories design…
140701 assembled Cambridge Companion essay 1997 Jerusha McCormack WILDE'S FICTION(S) THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WILDE Truth for the British culture of the day was a matter of authority; of themoral fundamentalism of a middle-class consensus a…
