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FURTHER READING

Biography

Laver, James. Oscar Wilde. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1954. 32 p.

Succinct biography of Wilde. Includes a bibliography.

Criticism

Backus, Margot Gayle. "Homophobia and the Imperial Demon Lover: Gothic Narrativity in Irish Representations of the Great War." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 21, no. 4 (March-June 1994): 45-63.

Explores the underlying motifs of demonized homosexuality and "the Gothic reunion of the self with some incomprehensible, unspeakable thing from which it has been divided" in The Picture of Dorian Gray and several other contemporaneous works of Anglo-Irish fiction.

Charlesworth, Barbara. "Oscar Wilde." In Dark Passages: The Decadent Consciousness in Victorian Literature, pp. 53-80. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Oscar Wilde (Story Date May 1887)
   2. Oscar Wilde (Letter Date 26 June 1890)
4. General Commentary
   1. Donald Lawler (Essay Date 1994)
5. Title Commentary
   1. The Picture of Dorian Gray
6. Further Reading

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