Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

Oscar Wilde's Profession : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198187288 : 0198187289 : 01 Feb 2001 : Presents an account of Wilde's writing career, based on publishing contracts and other documentation, as well as evidence of how he composed. This book argues that Wilde was not driven by an oppositional politics, nor was he an aesthetic 'purist'. His writing practices, including his 'plagiarism', reflected the pragmatism of a professional.Read More

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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."

  • 0198187289
  • 9780198187288
  • Josephine M. Guy, Ian Small
  • 23 November 2000
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 328
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