The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

  Mason, Stuart [Christopher Millard]. Bibliography of Oscar Wilde. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1914.

  ———. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality: A Record of the Discussion Which Followed the Publication of Dorian Gray. 1907; rpt. New York: Haskell House, 1971.

  Mikhail, E. H. Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. London: Macmillan, 1978.

  Mikolyzk, Thomas A. Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1993.

  Small, Ian. Oscar Wilde Revalued: An Essay on New Materials and Methods of Research. Greensboro, N.C.: ELT Press, 1993.

  ———. Oscar Wilde: Recent Research; A Supplement to “Oscar Wilde Revalued.” Greensboro, N.C.: ELT Press, 2000.

  BIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHICAL TOOLS

  Ackroyd, Peter. The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde. New York: Harper and Row, 1983.

  Adut, Ari. “A Theory of Scandal: Victorians, Homosexuality, and the Fall of Oscar Wilde.” American Journal of Sociology 111, no. 1 (July 2005): 213–248.

  Amor, Ann Clark. Mrs. Oscar Wilde: A Woman of Some Importance. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1983.

  Bartlett, Neil. Who Was That Man? A Present for Mr. Oscar Wilde. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1988.

  Belford, Barbara. Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius. New York: Random House, 2000.

  Borland, Maureen. Wilde’s Devoted Friend: A Life of Robert Ross 1869–1918. Oxford: Lennard, 1990.

  Brasol, Boris. Oscar Wilde: The Man, The Artist, The Martyr. New York: Scribner’s, 1938.

  Brémont, Anna, Comtesse de. Oscar Wilde and His Mother. 1911; rpt. New York: Haskell House, 1972.

  Coakley, Davis. Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Irish. Dublin: Town House, 1994.

  Douglas, Lord Alfred. Oscar Wilde and Myself. London: J. Long, 1914.

  ———. Without Apology. London: Martin Secker, 1938.

  ———. Oscar Wilde: A Summing-Up. London: Duckworth, 1940.

  Eagleton, Terry. Saint Oscar. Lawrence Hill, Derry: Field Day, 1989.

  Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. New York: Knopf, 1988.

  Fryer, Jonathan. Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde’s Devoted Friend. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2000.

  Goodman, Jonathan, compiler. The Oscar Wilde File. London: Allison and Busby/W. H. Allen, 1989.

  Hare, David. The Judas Kiss. New York: Grove Press, 1998.

  Hofer, Matthew, and Gary Scharnhorst, eds. Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.

  Holland, Merlin. The Wilde Album. London: Fourth Estate, 1997.

  ———. The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of the Trial of Oscar Wilde. New York: Perennial, 2003. Published in the U.K. as Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde. London: Fourth Estate, 2003.

  Holland, Vyvian. Son of Oscar Wilde. 1954; rpt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

  Hyde, H. Montgomery. Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath. New York: Farrar Straus, 1963.

  ———. The Trials of Oscar Wilde. 1962; rpt. New York: Dover, 1973.

  ———. Oscar Wilde: A Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1975.

  Lewis, J. Lloyd, and Henry Justin Smith. Oscar Wilde Discovers America, 1882. 1936; rpt. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1967.

  McCormack, Jerusha Hull. John Gray: Poet, Dandy, and Priest. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, 1991.

  ———. The Man Who Was Dorian Gray. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.

  McKenna, Neil. The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. London: Century, 2003.

  Merle, Robert. Oscar Wilde. Paris: Hachette, 1948.

  Mikhail, E. H. Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections (2 vols.). London: Macmillan, 1979.

  Moyle, Franny. Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde. London: John Murray, 2011.

  Murray, Douglas. Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas. New York: Hyperion, 2000.

  O’Brien, Kevin. Oscar Wilde in Canada: An Apostle for the Arts. Toronto: Personal Library, 1982.

  Page, Norman. An Oscar Wilde Chronology. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991.

  Pearson, Hesketh. The Life of Oscar Wilde, rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1954.

  Pennington, Michael. An Angel for a Martyr: Jacob Epstein’s Tomb for Oscar Wilde. Reading: Whiteknights, 1987.

  Robins, Ashley. Oscar Wilde: The Great Drama of His Life—How His Tragedy Reflected His Personality. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2011.

  Schmidgall, Gary. The Stranger Wilde: Interpreting Oscar. New York: Dutton, 1994.

  Sherard, Robert Harborough. The Life of Oscar Wilde. London: T. W. Laurie, 1906.

  ———. The Real Oscar Wilde. London: T. W. Laurie, 1916.

  Winwar, Francis. Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties. New York: Harper, 1940.

  Wright, Thomas. Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde. New York: Henry Holt, 2008. Published in the U.K. as Oscar’s Books.

  Wyndham, Horace. Speranza: A Biography of Lady Wilde. London: Boardman, 1951.

  CRITICAL WORKS

  Readers are referred also to the numerous essays and reviews to be found regularly in The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies, published twice yearly by the Oscar Wilde Society; also Oscholars (www.oscholars.com), an electronic exchange and repository for research and news concerning Wilde and his works.

  Ablow, Rachel. “Oscar Wilde’s Fictions of Belief.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42, no. 2 (Summer 2009): 175–182.

  Bashford, Bruce. Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Humanist. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999.

  Behrendt, Patricia F. Oscar Wilde: Eros and Aesthetics. New York: St. Martin’s, 1992.

  Bendz, Ernst. The Influence of Pater and Matthew Arnold in the Prose Writings of Oscar Wilde. 1914; rpt. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Press, 1969.

  Bényei, Támas. “Double Vision: Some Ambiguities of The Picture of Dorian Gray.” In Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous, ed. K. Dubs and J. Kaščáková, 60–79. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

  Blanchard, Mary. Oscar Wilde’s America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

  Bloom, Harold, ed. Oscar Wilde. Bloom’s Classic Critical Views. New York: Infobase, 2008.

  Boker, Uwe, Richard Corballis, and Julie A. Hibbard, eds. The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde during the Last 100 Years. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002.

  Bowlby, Rachel. “Promoting Dorian Gray.” In Bowlby, Shopping with Freud. New York: Routledge, 1993.

  Bredbeck, G. W. “Narcissus in the Wilde.” In The Politics and Poetics of Camp, ed. Moe Meyer, 51–74. New York: Routledge, 1994.

  Bristow, Joseph. “Wilde, Dorian Gray, and Gross Indecency.” In Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences, ed. Joseph Bristow. New York: Routledge, 1992.

  ———. “Wilde’s Fatal Effeminacy.” In Bristow, Effeminate England: Homoerotic Writing after 1885, 16–54. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

  ———, ed. Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

  ———, ed. Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008.

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

  Buckton, Oliver S. “Defacing Oscar Wilde.” In Buckton, Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography, 107–160 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).

  Carroll, Joseph. “Aestheticism, Homoeroticism, and Christian Guilt in The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Philosophy and Literature 29 (2005): 286–305.

  Chamberlin, J. E. Ripe Was the Drowsy Hour: The Age of Oscar Wilde. New York: Seabury, 1977.

  Clausson, Nils. “‘Culture and Corruption’: Paterian Self-Development versus Gothic Degeneration in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Papers on Language and Literature 39 no. 4 (Fall 2003): 339–364.

/>   Clayton, Loretta Ann. “Fashionably Wilde: Oscar Wilde and The Woman’s World.” Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 2005.

  Clayworth, Anya. “The Woman’s World: Oscar Wilde as Editor.” Victorian Periodicals Review 30 (1997): 84–101.

  Cohen, Ed. “Writing Gone Wilde: Homoerotic Desire in the Closet of Representation.” In Critical Essays on Oscar Wilde, ed. Gagnier, 1991.

  ———. Talk on the Wilde Side: Towards a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities. New York: Routledge, 1993.

  Cohen, Philip K. The Moral Vision of Oscar Wilde. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1978.

  Cohen, William A. “Indeterminate Wilde.” In Cohen, Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction, 191–236. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996.

  Craft, Christopher. “Come See About Me: Enchantment of the Double in The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Representations 91 (2005): 109–136.

  Cucullu, Lois. “Adolescent Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde’s Proto-Picture of Modernist Celebrity.” In Modernist Star Maps: Celebrity, Modernity, Culture, ed. Jonathan Goldman and Aaron Jaffe, 19–36. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2010.

  Danson, Lawrence. Wilde’s Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

  Dawson, Terence. “‘Man’s Deeper Nature Is Soon Found Out’: Psychological Typology, the Puer Aeternus, and Fear of the Feminine in The Picture of Dorian Gray.” In Dawson, The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, 67–127. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

  Eells, Emily, ed. Two Tombeaux to Oscar Wilde: Jean Cocteau’s Le Portrait Surnaturel de Dorian Gray and Raymond Laurent’s Essay on Wildean Aesthetics. High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2010.

  Ellmann, Richard, ed. Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1969.

  Evangelista, Stefano, ed. The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe. London: Continuum, 2010.

  Foldy, Michael. The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

  Fortunato, Paul L. Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde. New York: Routledge, 2007.

  Frankel, Nicholas. Oscar Wilde’s Decorated Books. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

  ———. “Vernon Lee and A. Mary F. Robinson—Two New Sources for Dorian Gray.” Wildean: Journal of the Oscar Wilde Society 36 (January 2010): 69–76.

  Gagnier, Regenia. Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986.

  ———, ed. Critical Essays on Oscar Wilde. New York: G. K. Hall, 1991.

  Gere, Charlotte, and Lesley Hoskins. The House Beautiful: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Interior. Aldershot: Lund Humphries, 2000.

  Gillespie, Michael Patrick. “Ethics and Aesthetics in The Picture of Dorian Gray.” In Rediscovering Oscar Wilde, ed. Sandulescu, 137–155.

  ———. The Picture of Dorian Gray: “What the World Thinks Me.” New York: Twayne, 1995.

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

  Goldstone, Andrew. “Servants, Aestheticism, and ‘The Dominance of Form.’” ELH 77 no. 3 (Fall 2010): 615–643.

  Gomel, Elana. “Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the (Un)Death of the Author.” Narrative 12 (2004): 74–92.

  Green, Stephanie. “Oscar Wilde’s The Woman’s World.” Victorian Periodicals Review 30 (1997): 102–120.

  Guidicelli, Xavier. “Illustrer The Picture of Dorian Gray: les paradoxes de la representation.” Etudes Anglaises 62, no. 1 (2009): 28–41.

  Guy, Josephine, and Ian Small. Oscar Wilde’s Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

  ———. Studying Oscar Wilde: History, Criticism, and Myth. Greensboro, N.C.: ELT Press, 2006.

  Han, Suh-Reen. “The Aesthete as the Modern Man: Discursive Formation in The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Nineteenth Century Literature in English 14, no. 1(2010):179–196.

  Hanson, Ellis. “The Temptation of Saint Oscar.” In Hanson, Decadence and Catholicism, 229–296. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.

  Horan, Patrick M. The Importance of Being Paradoxical: Maternal Presence in the Works of Oscar Wilde. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997.

  Ivory, Yvonne. “Poison, Passion, and Personality: Oscar Wilde’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning.” In Ivory, The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style 1850–1930, 83–108. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

  Joyce, Simon. “Sexual Politics and the Aesthetics of Crime: Oscar Wilde in the Nineties.” ELH 69, no. 2 (Spring 2002): 501–523.

  Kaplan, Morris B. Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.

  Keane, Robert F., ed. Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings, and His World. New York: AMS Press, 2003.

  Kent, Julia. “Oscar Wilde’s ‘False Notes’: Dorian Gray and English Realism.” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 48 (November 2007). Available at www.erudit.org/revue/ravon/2007/v/n48/017437ar.html.

  Killeen, Jarlath. The Faiths of Oscar Wilde: Catholicism, Folklore and Ireland. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

  Knox, Melissa. Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

  Kofman, Sarah. “The Imposture of Beauty: The Uncanniness of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.” In Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman, ed. P. Deutscher and K. Oliver. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

  Kohl, Norbert. Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

  Kosofsky-Sedgwick, Eve. “Toward the Gothic: Terrorism and Homosexual Panic.” In Kosofsky-Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, 83–96. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

  Latham, Sean. “The Importance of Being a Snob: Oscar Wilde’s Modern Pretensions.” In Latham, “Am I a Snob?” Modernism and the Novel, 31–56. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.

  ———. The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman à Clef. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

  Lawler, Donald F. “Oscar Wilde’s First Manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Studies in Bibliography 25 (1972): 125–135.

  ———. “The Revisions of Dorian Gray.” Victorians Institute Journal 3 (1974): 21–36.

  ———. An Inquiry into Oscar Wilde’s Revisions of The Picture of Dorian Gray. New York: Garland, 1988.

  Lawler, Donald F., and Charles E. Knott. “The Context of Invention: Suggested Origins of Dorian Gray.” Modern Philology 73 (1976): 389–398.

  Levine, Caroline. “Wilde’s End of Realism.” In Levine, The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt, 192–199. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003.

  Liebman, Sheldon W. “Character Design in The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Studies in the Novel 31, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 296–316.

  Lloyd, Tom. “Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Monstrous Portrait and Realism’s Demise.” In Lloyd, Crises of Realism: Representing Experience in the British Novel, 1816–1910, 156–171. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1997.

  Lorang, Elizabeth. “The Picture of Dorian Gray in Context: Intertextuality and Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine.” Victorian Periodicals Review 43, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 19–41.

  MacLeod, Kirsten. Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing, and the Fin de Siècle. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

  Mahaffey, Vicki. “Wilde’s Desire: A Study in Green.” In Mahaffey, States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment, 37–86. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

  Marcovitch, Heather. “Decadent Anxiety and Negative Capabilities: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome.” In Marcovitch, The Art of the Pose: Oscar Wilde’s Performance Theory, 119–150.
New York: Peter Lang, 2010.

  McCormack, Jerusha H., ed. Wilde the Irishman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

  McGinn, Colin. “The Picture: Dorian Gray.” In McGinn, Ethics, Evil, and Fiction, 123–143. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

  Mendelssohn, Michelle. Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2007.

  Meyer, Moe. “Under the Sign of Wilde: An Archaeology of Posing.” In The Poetics and Politics of Camp, ed. Moe Meyer. New York: Routledge, 1994.

  Mighall, Robert. “Unspeakable Vices: Moral Monstrosity and Representation.” In Mighall, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History’s Nightmares, 166–209. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  Milbank, Alison. “Sacrificial Exchange and the Gothic Double in Melmoth the Wanderer and The Picture of Dorian Gray.” In Shaping Belief: Culture, Politics and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writing, ed. Victoria Morgan and Clare Williams, 113–128. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008.

  Mills, Victoria. “Dandyism, Visuality, and the ‘Camp Gem.’” In Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures, ed. Luisa Calè and Patrizia Di Bello. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

  Nassaar, Christopher. Into the Demon Universe: A Literary Exploration of Oscar Wilde. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.

  Nunokawa, Jeff. Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

  Oates, Joyce Carol. “The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde’s parable of the Fall.” In Oates, Contraries: Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

  O’Connor, Maureen. “The Picture of Dorian Gray as Irish National Tale.” In Writing Irishness in Nineteenth Century British Culture, ed. Neil McCaw. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

  O’Malley, Patrick R. “‘Monstrous and Terrible Delight’: The Aesthetic Gothic of Pater and Wilde.” In O’Malley, Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture, 165–192. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

  Paglia, Camille. “The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer: Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.” In Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, 512–530. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.