The Picture of Dorian Gray | Critical Overview
When first published in England, The Picture of Dorian Gray met with a storm of negative reviews, many of which attacked the book in virulent terms for its alleged immorality. The Daily Chronicle, for example, assailed its “effeminate frivolity, its studied insincerity, its theatrical cynicism, its tawdry mysticism, its flippant philosophisings and the contaminating trail of garish vulgarity” (quoted in Norbert Kohl’s Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel). The anonymous critic for the St. James’s Gazette affected a manner of even greater...
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