Oscar Wilde's Profession : Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century

Oscar Wilde's Profession : Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century

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A materialist account of Wilde's writing career, based on publishing contracts and other documentation as well as detailed evidence of how he composed, this book argues that Wilde was not driven by an oppositional politics, nor was he an aesthetic "purist." Rather, he was thoroughly immersed
in the contemporary "commodification of culture" in which books became product. This study surveys his writing practices across the whole of the oeuvre, and radically reinterprets the significance of his revision and "plagiarism."

Oscar Wilde's Profession : Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century,Josephine M. Guy,Ian Small,Oxford University Press, USA,0198187289,1854-1900,19th century,Authors and publishers,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,General,Great Britain,History,Law,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature and society,Literature publishing,Literature: Classics,Relations with publishers,Technique,Wilde, Oscar,,English,Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Literary studies: 19th century,Literature/English | British Literature | 19th C,Plays & playwrights: 19th century,Views on authorship,Wilde, Oscar

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