The Annotated Picture of Dorian Gray

FAIN: FT-56677-09

Nicholas Raymond Frankel
Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA 23284-9005)

This project is a new scholarly edition of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, already contracted for publication in the U.S.A. and the U. K. with Harvard University Press. The edition is designed to extend knowledge of Wilde's novel and of late-Victorian Britain generally among a broad audience. Its value is twofold: it is the first edition ever to print the unexpurgated text of Wilde's novel, as Wilde intended it to be published. As importantly, it provides unusually rich, detailed, running-commentaries in order to guide readers through Wilde's text. These commentaries are based on the latest scholarship in several disciplines, and they illuminate not only topical references but also the historical, biographical, and intellectual contexts within which Wilde's novel first operated.

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The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray (Book)
Title: The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
Editor: Nicholas Frankel
Abstract: The Picture of Dorian Gray is presented here in its rare original incarnation, the overtly homoerotic Lippincott edition, with an appendix sampling Wilde’s later revisions. Also included is a brilliant introduction by Jeremy Reed, detailing the two editions and realigning the book’s position in the history of subversive underground fiction. With its outré elements of homosexuality, drug abuse and supernatural horror, The Picture of Dorian Gray remains Wilde’s most extreme creation, whilst also containing many of the mordant epigrams for which he is most renowned. It is a true classic of renegade literature.
Year: 2012
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780674066311
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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