The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2022-12-13

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0674271823

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Though best known for his drama and fiction, Oscar Wilde was also a pioneering critic. He introduced the idea that criticism was an act of creation, not just appraisal. Wilde transformed the genre by extending its ambit beyond art to include society itself, all while injecting it with his trademark wit and style.

Below the Fairy City
Below the Fairy City

Author: Carolyn Oulton

Publisher: Victorian Secrets

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1906469377

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The life of Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927) author of "Three Men in a Boat, " has been left unexplored. Oulton unearths hitherto unknown details of his early life in Walsall and follows his momentous move to the Fairy City of London, where a formative encounter with Charles Dickens influenced his choice of profession.

The Bookseller
The Bookseller

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Publisher:

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 1218

ISBN-13:

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Publisher and Bookseller
Publisher and Bookseller

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Published: 1905

Total Pages: 1222

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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

London Clubland
London Clubland

Author: A. Milne-Smith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-11-15

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1137002085

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This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.

George Alexander and the Work of the Actor-Manager
George Alexander and the Work of the Actor-Manager

Author: Lucie Sutherland

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-03

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 303040935X

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In the first book-length study of the work and legacy of West End actor-manager George Alexander since the 1930s, George Alexander and the Work of the Actor Manager examines the key part this figure played in presenting new drama by authors including Oscar Wilde and Henry James. The book sheds new light on the figure of the actor-manager, assessing in detail the influence of Alexander within and beyond his time. At the St. James’s Theatre in London between 1891 and 1918, through a range of strategies including the support of new writers, and adaptation of fiction to the stage, Alexander sustained professional status through practices that continue to be reflected in the cultural industries today. A range of evidence is employed including production reviews, anecdotal accounts, financial records, and personal correspondence, to reveal how he operated as a business entrepreneur as well as an artistic innovator.