Author(s): Oscar Wilde,Michael Patrick Gillespie
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 224
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Language: English
Date Published: 2006-04-01
Dimensions: 130 x 213 x 13mm
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
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"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson. "Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, among them George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F.

"Essays in Criticism" includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.