Oscar Wilde's Historical Criticism Notebook

By: Smith, Philip E., II

This volume contains the newly transcribed and annotated text of one of Oscar Wilde's unpublished notebooks that functioned as a major ante-text for the composition of Wilde's first post-graduate essay, Historical Criticism, written in 1879 as an entry for the Chancellor's English Essay Prize at Oxford. Attempting to win a fellowship at Oxford as a serious scholar, Wilde used the notebook to record his research into modern and classical historians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019968801X
• ISBN13: 9780199688012
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"