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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Sos Eltis; Oscar Wilde |
ISBN: | 0198121830 9780198121831 |
OCLC Number: | 254733616 |
Description: | VIII, 226 Seiten. |
Series Title: | Oxford English monographs. |
Responsibility: | Sos Eltis. |
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intriguing study * Nineteenth-Century Literature 51:3 (December 1996) * The argument of this book on the whole is a compelling one, and likely to be influential - partly because of the fluent articulation Eltis gives it, partly because of the sheer weight of archival evidence that she has assembled from little-known source plays and manuscripts. * Kerry Powell, Victorian Studies, Summer 1997 * Revising Wilde, has a strong contribution to make in innovative study of the Society Comedies in particular ... this book is ... refreshing. It has new information to offer in the shape of the consideration of the drafts of the plays, and it presents it in a clear and frank manner. Eltis's style is free from the clutter of terminology which often masks critical works and makes them unintelligible to the uninitiated reader and dense to the initiated. Herpresentation makes her argument clear and easy to follow ... its clarity does it much credit. * The Wildean 10 * Read more...

