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BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Publications on Wilde by Philip E. Smith II
Philip E. Smith (Department of English, University of Pittsburgh) works primarily on 19th- and 20th-century literary and culture studies involving Oscar Wilde, literature and science, science fiction, drama, and the institution of English teaching. He contributed to and edited Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde (MLA 2008). He is co-author and co-editor of Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making (Oxford U.P. 1989); he has published articles on Wilde, on Pitt's culture studies curriculum, and on figures such as August Wilson, Ursula Le Guin, Robert Heinlein, Constance Naden, and Charles Olson. With Joseph Bristow (UCLA), he is at work on an edition of the unpublished notebooks of Oscar Wilde.
We are most grateful to Professor Smith for providing this information.
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Books
	Editor, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde (New York: MLA Publications, 2008). Modern Language Association series, Approaches to Teaching World Literature.
	Oscar Wilde’s Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). Michael S. Helfand, co-author and co-editor.
Refereed Articles
‘Wilde in the Bodleian, 1878-1881,’ English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 46:3 (2003): 279-295.
‘Protoplasmic Hierarchy and Philosophical Harmony: Science and Hegelian Aesthetics in Oscar Wilde’s Notebooks,’ The Victorian Newsletter, 74 (Fall 1988): 30-33.
---. Rpt. in Critical Essays on Oscar Wilde, ed. Regenia Gagnier (NY: G. K. Hall, 1991): 202-209.
‘Robert Lewins, Constance Naden, and Hylo-Idealism,’ Notes and Queries, N. S. 25.4 (August 1978): 303-309.
‘Anarchy and Culture: The Evolutionary Turn of Cultural Criticism in the Work of Oscar Wilde,’ Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 20.2 (Summer 1978): 199-215. Michael S. Helfand, co-author.
Essays, Chapters and Notes
‘Wilde and Renan: History and the Semites,’ Special Issue : Oscar Wilde, Jews & the Fin-de-Siècle, ed. S. I. Salamensky, The OScholars: Summer 2010. 680 words. Web. http://www.oscholars.com/TO/Specials/Wilde/Smith.htm
‘Ellmann’s Oscar Wilde: Caveat Lector,’ Special Issue: Revaluing and Re-evaluating Richard Ellmann’s Oscar Wilde, ed. Michèle Mendelssohn, The OScholars: January 2009. 460 words. Web. http://www.oscholars.com/TO/Specials/Ellmann/Ellmann.htm
‘Philosophical Approaches to Interpretation of Oscar Wilde,’ Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies, ed. Frederick Roden (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004): 143-166.
‘Defining the Fin de Siècle: Looking Backwards from the 1990s to the 1890s.’ Victorian Literature and Culture 23 (1995): 389-400.
Reviews
Rev. of Oscar's Books, published in the USA as Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde, by Thomas Wright. The OScholars 51 (March 2010) n.pag. 4200 words. Web. 2 April 2010. http://www.oscholarship.com/TO/Archive/Fifty-one/Critic/critic.htm
Rev. of Richard Strauss’s Salome, ‘Salome in Pittsburgh,’ The OScholars: 1.7 (December 2001): 12-14. http://www.oscholarship.com/TO/Archive/Seven/Oscholars_7.htm#_3.__Salome
Rev. of Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s by Kerry Powell. Nineteenth-Century Prose 20.1 (Spring 1993): 124-127.
Rev. of Oscar Wilde, ed. Isobel Murray. English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 34.4 (1991): 469-472.
Rev. of Oscar Wilde, by Richard Ellmann. Victorian Studies 32 (1989): 459-60.
Rev. of The Edwardian Temperament 1895-1919 by Jonathan Rose, Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public by Regenia Gagnier, The Arnoldian 15 (1988): 56-60.
Conference Presentations
‘The Women of Homer and the Eccles Bequest Notebook for ‘Historical Criticism’: New Information about Wilde’s Aesthetic and Critical Perspective on the Past,’ North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Conference, Montreal, 12 November 2010
‘Oscar Wilde in the Bodleian, 1878-1881,’ Oscar Wilde Conference, U. of Birmingham, England, 16-18 April 1993.
‘Science and Hegelian Aesthetics in Oscar Wilde’s Notebooks,’ Aestheticism and Science in Late Victorian England (Session 52), Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, New York, 27 December 1986.
‘Soul Searching: Grounds for Belief in Oscar Wilde’s Unpublished Notebooks,’ Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference, Providence, RI, 20 April 1985. Michael S. Helfand, co-author.
‘The Dramatist as Intellectual: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophical Synthesis,’ Comparative Drama Conference, U. of Florida, 24 March 1984.
‘Oscar Wilde and the Darwinian Turn of Cultural Criticism,’ Victorian Studies section, Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, U. of Vermont, 10 April 1976. Michael S. Helfand, co-author.
RADIO PRESENTATIONS
Interviewed about Oscar Wilde for ‘Radio West,’ KUER-FM, Salt Lake City, UT, September 30, 2004 (15-minute segment).
Invited speaker, ‘Issues in Contemporary Drama,’ What’s the Word #59, produced by Sally Placksin, Modern Language Association. Recorded in June 1999, broadcast in Fall 1999. I spoke about Oscar Wilde as a character in two contemporary plays, David Hare’s The Judas Kiss and Moises Kaufman’s The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.
Book in Progress
Co-Editor: Oscar Wilde’s ‘Philosophy’ Notebook and Related Humanistic Writings c. 1872-1879. With Joseph Bristow, Department of English, UCLA. This will be a fully annotated edition of Oscar Wilde‟s significant unpublished undergraduate writings. The centerpiece of this edition is Wilde’s 304-page ‘Philosophy’ notebook, which the Clark Library (UCLA) acquired at the sale of Halsted B. Vander Poel’s collection, Christie’s, London on 3 March 2004. This document, we believe, was not available to the public during the 70 or so years in which it lay in Mr. Vander Poel’s collection. The ‘Philosophy’ notebook is the most substantial manuscript dating from Wilde’s undergraduate years at Magdalen College, Oxford (1874-78). The manuscript reveals the remarkable extent of his reading while he prepared for his final examinations in Literae Humaniores or ‘Greats’ (a syllabus which included classical literature, history, philosophy, and ‘Logic’ [i.e. modern moral and political philosophy]). The proposed edition will also include three more shorter notebooks. One notebook from 1878-79 contains notes and drafts for his essay, ‘The Rise of Historical Criticism’.
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