The an annotated, uncensored edition Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 creator Frankel, Nicholas 1962- editor text bibliography Didactic fiction. mau Cambridge, Mass Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011 monographic eng

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295 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm. This book altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had 'a different look, ' yet the version that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as vulgar, unclean, and poisonous. The novel's first editor, J.M. Stoddart, excised material, especially homosexual content, he thought would offend his readers' sensibilities. When Wilde enlarged the novel for the 1891 edition, he responded to his critics by further toning down its 'immoral' elements. The differences between the text Wilde submitted to Lippincott and published versions of the novel have until now been evident to only a handful of scholars who have examined Wilde's typescript. Now, more than 120 years after Wilde handed it over to his publisher, J.B. Lippincott & Company, Wilde's uncensored typescript is published for the first time, in an annotated, extensively illustrated edition. -- from Book Jacket General introduction -- Textual introduction -- The picture of Dorian Gray -- Textual notes -- Appendix A: Accidental changes introduced into the text by J.M. Stoddart or his associates -- Appendix B: The 1891 preface to The picture of Dorian Gray -- Note on Wilde editions. Oscar Wilde ; edited by Nicholas Frankel. Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) Novela inglesa Literatura inglesa Bien y mal Novela Appearance (Philosophy) Fiction Conduct of life Fiction Portraits Fiction Apariencia (Filosofía) Ficción Conducta de vida Ficción Retratos Ficción PR 5819 W672p 2011 823/.8 9780674057920 (alk. paper) 0674057929 (alk. paper) 2010049134 DLC 101129 20250529162727.0 116125 eng