The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

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Suggestions for Further Reading

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

Ellmann, Richard, ed. Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1969.

Fido, Martin. Oscar Wilde. New York: Viking Press, 1973.

Gillespie, Michael Patrick. The Picture of Dorian Gray: What the World Thinks Me. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.

McCormack, Jerusha Hull. The Man Who Was Dorian Gray. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

Nicholls, Mark. The Importance of Being Oscar: The Life and Wit of Oscar Wilde. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980.

Raby, Peter, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Roden, Frederick S., ed. Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Norton Critical Edition, 2nd edition). Michael Gillespie, ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.

Womack, Kenneth. “‘Withered, Wrinkled, and Loathsome of Visage’: Reading the Ethics of the Soul and the Late-Victorian Gothic in The Picture of Dorian Gray.” In Victorian Gothic: Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys, 168–181. New York: Palgrave, 2000.

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