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BIBLIOGRAPHIES

De Profundis

August 2008; corrected and updated October 2009

 

Our rough-and-ready guide to further reading on De Profundis, compiled by D.C. Rose and Michelina Cersosimo.  We hope to add more as time goes on, especially if we can fill the great gap in our research for the years between 1916 and 1960.  All contributions will be acknowledged.

We have been able to republish some of these articles.  Click where you see the sunflower.

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Castrén, Gunnar: De Profundis.  Euterpe. Helsinki, Finland. 1st March 1905

Österling, Anders: De Profundis.  Svenska Dagblad. Stockholm, Sweden. 26th March 1905

Barry, Revd William: A Book of Penitence [De Profundis].  The Bookman London. 12th April 1905

Davis, John Tyssul: A Soul’s Awakening [De Profundis].  Inquirer 12th August 1905

Gide,  André: Le De Profundis d’Oscar Wilde.  Paris: L’Ermitage 15th August 1905

Lindqvist, Carl Gustav (writing as Mari Mihi): De Profundis.  Idun Sweden. 12th October 1905

Söderman, Sven: A Voice from the Prison [De Profundis].  Stockholm Dagbladet Stockholm, Sweden. 15th October 1905

Ring, Jacobine: De Profundis.  New Daily Miscellany. Sweden. 11th November 1905

Shaw, George Bernard & Trebitsch Siegfried: De Profundis.  Die Schaubühne. 9th April 1908

Bennettsunflower.4.jpg, Arnold [as ‘Jacob Tonson’]: Suppressions in ‘De Profundis’. The New Age [reprinted in Books and Persons, being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911, London: Chatto & Windus 1917] London. 21st July 1910. 

Boxmann-Winkler, K. C.: The Ballad of Reading Gaol & De Profundis.  De Gids 3. The Netherlands. 1916

Montgomery Hyde, H.: The ‘De Profundis’ Affair. Sunday Times London.  3rd January 1960

Sparrow, John: Oscar Wilde after Fifty Years [De Profundis]. Faber & Faber in: Independent Essays (reprinted from The TLS 1951). London 1963

Cary, Meredith: ‘De Profundis’: Wilde’s Letter to the World. Tennessee Studies in Literature 16 pp.91-102. 1971

Butwin, Joseph: The Martyr Clown: Oscar Wilde in De Profundis. Victorian Newsletter vol 42 pp.1-6. Fall 1972

Harvey, Kail: The Other Half of the Garden: Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis and the Confessional Tradition. Prose Studies 2 1979

Miller, Robert Keith: The Man of Sorrows: De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.  Chapter VI of Oscar Wilde. New York: Frederick Ungar. 1982

Leblans, Anne: Oscar Wilde: Komediant uit verlangennaar moderliefde: Vergelijkende interpretatie tussen The Picture of Dorian Gray en De Profundis. Restant: Tijdschrift voor Recentie Semiotische Teorievorming en de Analyse van Texten 10 : 2 Antwerp. Summer 1982

Hyde, H. Montgomery: The Riddle of De Profundis – Who Owns the Manuscript?  Antigonish Review 54. Antigonish NS 1983

Gagnier, Regenia A.: De Profundis as Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis – A Materialist Reading of Oscar Wilde’s Autobiography. Criticism 26 : 4 Detroit. Fall 1984

Bashford, Bruce: Oscar Wilde as Theorist: The Case of De Profundis. English Literature in Transition 28 : 4 pp.395-406 Greensboro, N. Carolina 1985

Gagnier, Regenia A.: De Profundis: An Audience of Peers.  Chapter V of Idylls of the Market Place – Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public Aldershot: Scolar Press. 1987

Andersen Mildred Cecilia: Document of Division: Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis.  Unisa English Studies: Journal of the Department of English 27 : 2. Pretoria South Africa. September 1989

Buckler, William E.: Oscar Wilde’s Æsthetic of the Self: Art as Imaginative Self-Realization in De Profundis.  Biography : An Interdisciplinary Quarterly vol 12 (2) Spring 1989

Losey, Jay: The Æsthetics of Exile: Wilde transforming Dante in Intentions and De Profundis. English Literature in Transition 36 : 4 pp.429-50 Greensboro, N. Carolina  1993

Knox, Melissa: De Profundis, Dying beyond His Means. Chapter V of Oscar Wilde – A Long and Lovely Suicide. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press  1994

Mc Guinness, Frank: The Spirit of Play in Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis.  In Chris Morash (ed): Creativity & Its Contexts Dublin: Lilliput 1995

Wood, Jane: Prisons of Subjectivity: Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, An Autobiography of Escape.  Victorian Literature & Culture 24 New York  1998

Mc Guinness, Frank: The Spirit of Play in De Profundis. In Mc Cormack, Jerusha (ed.): Wilde The Irishman.  New Haven & London: Yale University Press 1998

Buckton, Oliver: Desire without Limit: Dissident Confession in Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis.  In: Victorian Sexual Dissidence University of Chicago Press Chicago  1999

Bashford, Bruce: Fathoming the Soul in ‘De Profundis’. Chapter 3 of Bruce Bashford: Oscar Wilde, the Critic as Humanist.  Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson UP 1999

Pestka, Dariusz: From Ideological and Literary Synthesis to the Attempt to Recreate Oneself—Oscar Wilde’s Critical Essays and ‘De Profundis’.  Chapter V in: Oscar Wilde: Between Æstheticism and Anticipation of Modernism.  Torún Poland: Uniwersytetu Mikolaja Kopernika  1999

Doylensunflower.4.jpg, Michael R.: Oscar Wilde’s ‘De Profundis’: Homosexual Self-Fashioning on the Other Side of Scandal. Victorian Literature & Culture 27 pp.547-66 1999

Amiotsunflower.4.jpg, Pascale: Oscar Wilde, De Profundis in: Aspects de l’Autobiographie Littéraire en Angleterre et en Irlande.  Ellipses February 2001

Fostersunflower.4.jpg, David: Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, and the rhetoric of agency. Papers on Language and Literature Winter 2001

Snidersunflower.4.jpg, Clifton: Oscar Wilde, Queer Addict: Biography and De Profundis. The Wildean 23 London  July 2003

Guy, Josephine M. & Small, Ian:  Reading De Profundis.   English Literature in Transition 49 : 2 pp.123–149  Greensboro, N. Carolina 2005

Schnitzer, Carol: Prison Confession: An Analysis of De Profundis. The Wildean 27 London  July 2005

Killeen, Jarlath: Realism and Reason: Between Protestantism and Catholicism in Wilde’s Final Writings. [De Profundis / The Ballad of Reading Gaol]. Chapter VI of The Faiths of Oscar Wilde: Catholicism, Folklore and Ireland. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan October 2005

Schroeder, Horst: Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis. [De Profundis]. The Wildean 28 London  January 2006

Holland, Merlin: The Stormy History of De Profundis. The Wildean 28 London  January 2006

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ADDENDA & CORRIGENDA kindly provided by Michelina Cersosimo, October 2009.

Albert, John. ‘The Christ of Oscar Wilde.’ The American Benedictine Review 39.8 (1988): 372-402.

Ball, David. ‘Oscar Wilde and the Practice of Transformation’. English 40.166 (1991): 22-35.

Beerbohm, Max. ‘A Lord of Language’. Vanity Fair (1905). Rpt. in The Critical Heritage. Ed. Karl Beckson. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. 248-251.

Brown, Julia Prewitt. Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of Art. Charlottesville: Virginia UP, 1997.

Christensen, Peter G. ‘Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis: Prison Letter as Myth.’ Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye. Toronto: University of Toronto Press Inc., 2004.

Cohen, Phillip K. The Moral Vision of Oscar Wilde. Cranbury: Associated UP, 1978.

Crosland, T.W.H. ‘The First Stone: On Reading the Unpublished Portions of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis.’ (1912): 5-7. Rpt. in The Critical Heritage. Ed. Karl Beckson. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. 322-323.

Dollimore, Jonathan. ‘Different Desires: Subjectivity and Transgression in Wilde and Gide’. Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Jonathan Freedman. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1996. 36-54.

Dollimore, Jonathan. Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. 95-98.

Fleishman, Avron. ‘Wilde De Profundis.’ Figures of Autobiography: The Language of Self-Writing in Victorian and Modern England. Berkley: California UP, (1983). 284-293.

Godwin, Kelli M. ‘Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis: A Narrative of Sexual Sin and Forgiveness.’ The Explicator 67.1 (2008): 58-61.

Gordon, Jan B. ‘Wilde and Newman: The Confessional Tradition.’ Renascence 22.4 (1970): 183-191.

Gosse, Edmund. [Letter to Robert Ross]. 1905. Rpt. in The Critical Heritage. Ed. Karl Beckson. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. 243.

Graham, Cunninghame R.B. ‘Vox Calamantis’. Saturday Review (1905). Rpt. in The Critical Heritage. Ed. Karl Beckson. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. 255-58.

Holland, Merlin. ‘De Profundis: The Afterlife of a Manuscript.’ Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings, and His Word. Ed. Robert N. Keane. New York: AMS Press, 2003. 251-267.

Housman, Laurence. [Letter to Robert Ross]. 1905. Rpt. in The Critical Heritage. Ed. Karl Beckson. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. 242-243.

Koestenbaum, Wayne. ‘Wilde’s Hard Labor and the Birth of Gay Reading’. Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Jonathan Freedman. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1996. 234-247.

Lucas, E.V. [Review of De Profundis]. TLS, 1905. 64-5. Rpt. in The Critical Heritage. Ed. Karl Beckson. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. 244-248.

Maxson, Helen F. ‘Sincerity and the Subject in Wilde’s De Profundis.’ Nineteenth Century Prose (September 1998): 103-116.

Quintus, John Allen. ‘Christ, Christianity, and Oscar Wilde.’ Texas Studies in Literature and Language 33.4 (1991): 514-527.

Schultz, William Todd. ‘De Profundis as Turning Point in Oscar Wilde’s Life Story.’ Turns in the Road: Narrative Studies of Lives in Transition. Ed. Dan McAdams, R. Josselson, and A. Lieblich. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association Press, 2001.

Scott-James, R.A. ‘The Decadents’. Modernism and Romance (1908): 71-75. Rpt. in The Critical Heritage. Ed. Karl Beckson. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. 277-280.

Shaw, George Bernard. [Letter to Robert Ross]. 1905. Rpt. in The Critical Heritage. Ed. Karl Beckson. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. 243-244.

Shewan, Rodney. Oscar Wilde: Art and Egotism. London: Macmillan, 1977.

Small, Ian. ‘Love-Letter, Spiritual Autobiography, or Prison Writing? Identity and Value in De Profundis.’ Wilde Writings and Contextual Conditions. Ed. Joseph Bristow. Canseda: The Regents of the University of California, 2003.

Stead, William. The Review of Reviews (1905). Rpt. in The Critical Heritage. Ed. Karl Beckson. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. 242.

Street, G.S. ‘Out of the Depths’. The Outlook (1905). Rpt. in The Critical Heritage. Ed. Karl Beckson. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1970. 252-254.

Walton, David: Fashioning the Self from the Chasm: De Profundis and the Chronotope of Post-Prison Time.  Miscela'nea: Journal of English and American Studies 20: Special Edition on Modernism 1999.

Willoughby, Guy. ‘Oscar Wilde and Poststructuralism.’ Philosophy and Literature 12.2 (1989): 316-324.

Wood, Julia. ‘De Profundis Re-Examined.’ The Wildean: Journal of the Oscar Wilde Society 14 (1999): 38-40.

Corrections

Bruce Bashford is listed twice with two different articles, but it is merely the same article just reprinted under a different title: Bashford, Bruce. ‘Fathoming the Soul in De Profundis.’ Oscar Wilde, the Critic as Humanist. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 1999. Rpt. of ‘Oscar Wilde as Theorist: The Case of De Profundis.’ English Literature in Transition 28.4 (1985): 396-406

Gagnier, Regenia. ‘De Profundis as Epistola: in Carcere et Vinculis: A Materialist Reading of Oscar Wilde’s Autobiography.’ Criticism 26.4 (1984): 335-354. Rpt. in Idylls of the Market Place: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public. Ed. Regenia Gagnier. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1986. 177-195. (This article is already listed, but listed twice. It’s merely a reprint)

Pyke, Rafford. ‘Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis’.  Ed. William Barry. The Bookman. London: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905. 628-629. (This is listed above but has Barry as the author of the article.)

 

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