Oscar Wilde, New Edition (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

As a poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright, Oscar Wilde excelled in a range of genres, engaging and fascinating his readers with his ability to make use of compatible contraries. Many of his central works, including 'The Importance of Being Earnest', 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', 'Lady Windermere's Fan', and 'Salomé', and their lasting influence are discussed in this new edition of critical essays. This entry in the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series features an introductory essay from literary critic Harold Bloom, a chronology of Wilde's life, a bibliography of his works, and an index for handy reference.

CONTENTS
Editor's Note
Introduction (Harold Bloom)
The Uses of Decadence: Wilde, Yeats and Joyce (Richard Ellmann)
A Poetics for Living: Christ and the Meaning of Sorrow in 'De Profundis' (Guy Willoughby)
Bunburying with Bakhtin: Carnivalesque Reading of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (Ronald Knowles)
The Victorian Impulse in Contemporary Audiences: The Regularization of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (Michael Patrick Gillespie)
Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Gothic: Walter Pater, Dark Enlightenment, and 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (John Paul Riquelme)
Wilde's 'Salomé' and the Victorian Religious Landscape (Christopher S. Nassaar)
Parody, Paradox and Play in 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (Burkhard Niederhoff)
"The Honey of Romance": Oscar Wilde as Poet and Novelist (James G. Nelson)
Chronology
Contributors
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index