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April  2008

MICHAEL PATRICK GILLESPIE’S PUBLICATIONS ON OSCAR WILDE

 

Michael Patrick Gillespie is Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee.

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Books

 

The Picture of Dorian Gray: ‘What the World Thinks Me.’  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.

 

Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.

Contents

Acknowledgments                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ix

Abbreviations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  xi

1.    The Insistence of Pluralism: Wilde, the Reader, and the Elements of Composition                                                                                                                             1

2.    ‘Tame Essence of Wilde’: The Evolution of Wilde's Early Writings                                                                                                                                                     17

3.    Cultural and Aesthetic Responses in Wilde's Essays: Approaching The Picture of Dorian Gray                                                                                                      36

4.    Picturing Dorian Gray: Resistant Readings in Wilde's Novel                                                                                                                                                             57

5.    The Force of Conformity: Plays of the Early Nineties                                                                                                                                                                          75

6.    The Victorian Impulse in Contemporary Audiences: The Regularization of The Importance of Being Earnest                                                                              100

7.    From Beau Brummell to Lady Bracknell: Re-viewing the Dandy in The Importance of Being Earnest                                                                                             115

8.    The Salome of Wilde and Beardsley: Multiple Voices, Multiple Texts                                                                                                                                                133

9.    The Failure of Solipsism: Wilde's Late Work                                                                                                                                                                                       155

Notes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               175

Bibliography                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    191

Index                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                199

 

The Importance of Being Earnest: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism.  New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.

 

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism. Second Edition. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.

 

Oscar Wilde: Life, Work, and Criticism.  Fredericton, N.B.: York Press Ltd., 1990.

 

Articles

 

‘Picturing Dorian Gray: Resistant Readings in Wilde's Novel.’ English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920 35 (1992):7-25. Reprinted in The Picture of Dorian Gray: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism. Second Edition. Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006

 

‘From Beau Brummell to Lady Bracknell: Reviewing the Dandy in The Importance of Being Earnest.’  Victorians Institute Journal 21 (1993): 119-142.  Reprinted in The Importance of Being Earnest: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism.  Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006, pp. 166-182.

 

‘“What's in a Name?”: Representing The Picture of Dorian Gray.’  Bucknell Review.  38 (1994): 44-60.

 

‘Ethics and Aesthetics in The Picture of Dorian Gray.’  In Rediscovering Oscar Wilde.  Ed. C. George Sandulescu.  Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1994, pp. 137-155.

 

‘Oscar Wilde and the Fabrication of an Irish Identity’, first published as a chapter in Michael Patrick Gillespie: The Æsthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003.

 

‘Preface.’ The Importance of Being Earnest: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006, pp. ix-xii.

 

‘Preface.’ The Picture of Dorian Gray: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism. Second Edition. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006, pp. ix-xiv.

 

·         The first five of the articles listed above have been republished by kind permission in our Library.  We also draw your attention to Professor Gillespie’s assessment of Richard Ellmann ‘Ellmann and Success’, THE OSCHOLARS 2007.

 

 

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