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Picture of Dorian Gray, The, A Longman Cultural Edition
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From the Longman Cultural Editions series, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Longman Cultural Edition, edited by Andrew Elfenbein, presents the 1891 version of Wilde’s novel with detailed annotations drawing on contemporary writings about London. It also presents a range of cultural contexts with information about the novel’s first reviews, aestheticism, Victorian treatments of sexuality and science, and parodies of the novel.
Handsomely produced and affordably priced, the Longman Cultural Editions series presents classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations; a table of dates to track its composition, publication, and public reception in relation to biographical, cultural and historical events; and a guide for further inquiry and study.
The following Longman Cultural Editions are available now: Othello and the Tragedy of Mariam;Pride and Prejudice; Hamlet (Second Edition), Hard Times; Beowulf; King Lear; The Merchant of Venice; Northanger Abbey; Emma; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria; Heart of Darkness, the Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire; Frankenstein (Second Edition).
Forthcoming titles include: The Castle of Otranto and The Man of Feeling, Keats, Wuthering Heights,and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2.
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- Detailed footnotes on each page annotate unfamiliar references.
- First reviews of the novel illustrate the controversy of its time.
- Excerpts on Victorian aestheticism and Victorian sexuality illuminate the novel’s response to Victorian aestheticism and Wilde’s representation of sexuality.
- Introductory chronology of dates places the novel in historical context.
- Editor’s introduction offers a critical analysis of the text.
- Parodies of the text demonstrate humor in aestheticism.
Andrew Elfenbein is the Morse-Alumni Distinguish Teaching Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He works on 18th- and 19th-century British literature, gender and sexuality studies, the history of English, and cognitive approaches to reading.
From Longman’s new Cultural Editions Series, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Andrew Elfenbein, includes the novel and contextual materials from the era of Oscar Wilde.
This edition of Oscar Wilde’s classic work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, highlights the novel’s modernity in both its form and its revolutionary content, and traces its links to modernist literature and the culture of modernity alike.
Previous editions of the novel have only seen it in a late Victorian context, or as an extension of the aesthetic theories of Walter Pater and the “art for art’s sake” movement. As presented in this new edition, however, the freshness and originality of the book emerges, along with its strong social messages. The book is a pastiche of genres that propels nineteenth-century realism into twentieth-century modernism ahead of its own time. Wilde’s novel offers a myth for modernity whose hold on the cultural imagination has only strengthened over time-Dorian Gray’s uncanny bond with his own portrait underscores the loss of selfhood everyone experiences in a world of images and copies, paves the way for the discourses of homosexuality and the understanding of lifestyle as identity so current today, and provides clues to the mysteries of modern ethics and politics. The edition also emphasizes the role of gender and the rise of female emancipation underlying the Sybil Vane subplot, a focus on women that intensifies the book’s relevance to modern transformations of men and women alike.
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About Longman Cultural Editions
About This Edition
Introduction
Table of Dates
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Contexts
Textual Issues
The Two Versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray
from Chapter 1 (1890, 1891)
from Chapter 7 (1890) and Chapter 9 (1891)
from Chapter 10 (1890) and Chapter 12 (1891)
from Chapter 13 (1890) and Chapter 20 (1891)
Chapter 11: Further Annotations
Victorian Reactions to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Reviews
Ward, Lock, and Co., Lippincott’s Advertisement for The Picture of Dorian Gray
Samuel Henry Jeyes, St. James’s Gazette and Wilde’s responses
Walter Pater, The Bookman
Paradies
Robert Smythe Hichens, from The Green Carnation
George Slythe Street, from The Autobiography of a Boy
Wilde’s Trials
from Regina (Oscar Wilde) vs. John Douglas (Marquess of Queensberry)
Aestheticism
Walter Pater, “Conclusion” to The Renaissance
Mathew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy
Oscar Wilde, from The Decay of Lying
Joris-Karl Huysmans, from A Rebours (Against the Grain)
Science
Charles Darwin, from The Descent of Man
William Kingdon Clifford, from “Right and Wrong: The Scientific Ground of their Distinction”
Thomas Henry Huxley, from “Science and Culture”
Henry Maudsley, from The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind
Love between Men
John Addington Symonds, from “A Problem in Greek Ethics”
Richard St. John Tyrwhitt, from “The Greek Spirit in Modern Literature”
Havelock Ellis, from Sexual Inversion
Works Cited in the Notes
Further Reading
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Longman Cultural Edition
Editor: Andrew Elfenbein
Series Editor: Susan J. Wolfson
Affordably priced, Longman Cultural Editions present classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts–cultural, critical, and literary. Each Longman Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of a key literary work, supplemented by helpful annotations and followed by contextual materials that reveal the conversations and controversies of its historical moment.
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| Dimensions | 1.55 × 5.50 × 8.25 in |
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| Subjects | Literature, english, higher education, Language Arts / Literacy, Introduction to Literature |