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Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century

Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century

Small, Ian
Guy, Josephine M.

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0198187289
ISBN13: 9780198187288
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 1 2001
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.24 Depth: 8.34
Language: English
A materialist account of Wilde's writing career, based on publishing contracts and other documentation as well as detailed evidence of how he composed, this book argues that Wilde was not driven by an oppositional politics, nor was he an aesthetic purist. Rather, he was thoroughly immersed in the contemporary commodification of culture in which books became product. This study surveys his writing practices across the whole of the oeuvre, and radically reinterprets the significance of his revision and plagiarism.

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