TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robbins,Ruth
TI  - Oscar Wilde
T2  - Writers' lives
SN  - 9780826498519
AV  - PR 5824  .R57 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Wilde, Oscar,
KW  - Authors, Irish
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-188) and index; Introduction -- Poems -- Prose: critical -- Prose: short fictional -- Prose: long fictional -- Plays -- Prison writings
N2  - Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically during the twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials for homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s and '90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English. Ruth Robbins introduces Wilde through a focus on his manipulations of genre and sets Wilde's life and work in its literary and cultural context
ER  -