132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
Why Read Wilde? is an engaging and essential introduction to one of the most important and enigmatic writers of the nineteenth century. It argues that Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is our Victorian Contemporary whose writing tells us as much about ourselves as the nineteenth-century audiences he entertained, flattered and satirised.
Neil Sammells opens by describing the fascinating, ballistic arc... Read more
Introduction
1. The Life
2. The Theories
3. The Novel
4. The Plays
5. The Afterlife
Works Cited
Selected Further Reading
Index
Biography
Neil Sammells holds an Emeritus Professorship in English and Irish Writing from Bath Spa University, UK, and is the founding editor of Irish Studies Review. He is the author of numerous academic articles and of books on Tom Stoppard and Oscar Wilde.
