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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWilde, Oscar
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray :
_bA Reader's Edition /
_cNicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _t Frontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tPREFACE --
_tGENERAL INTRODUCTION --
_tTEXTUAL INTRODUCTION --
_tThe Picture of Dorian Gray --
_tNotes --
_tAPPENDIX. The 1891 Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray --
_tFURTHER READING --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aMore than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the material removed by the novel's first editor. Upon receipt of the typescript, Wilde's editor panicked at what he saw. Contained within its pages was material he feared readers would find "offensive"-especially instances of graphic homosexual content. He proceeded to go through the typescript with his pencil, cleaning it up until he made it "acceptable to the most fastidious taste." Wilde did not see these changes until his novel appeared in print. Wilde's editor's concern was well placed. Even in its redacted form, the novel caused public outcry. The British press condemned it as "vulgar," "unclean," "poisonous," "discreditable," and "a sham." When Wilde later enlarged the novel for publication in book form, he responded to his critics by further toning down its "immoral" elements. Wilde famously said that The Picture of Dorian Gray "contains much of me": Basil Hallward is "what I think I am," Lord Henry "what the world thinks me," and "Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps." Wilde's comment suggests a backward glance to a Greek or Dorian Age, but also a forward-looking view to a more permissive time than his own repressive Victorian era. By implication, Wilde would have preferred we read today the uncensored version of his novel.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 0 _aAppearance (Philosophy)
_vFiction.
650 0 _aConduct of life
_vFiction.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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700 1 _aFrankel, Nicholas
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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