OSCAR WILDE
Scope|Circulating
Books|Critical
Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites
SCOPE: Born in Dublin, Ireland, Oscar Wilde was noted for his flamboyant, ostentatious nature. He was a writer of plays and short stories, but is perhaps best known
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of Oscar Wilde’s works are listed in our on-line catalog under “ Wilde, Oscar,” and under individual titles.
Some representative books from the circulating collection located upstairs in the library are:
Schmidgall, Gary. The
Stranger Wilde: Interpreting Oscar. New York: Dutton, 1994.
Simmons, James C. Star-Spangled Eden: 19th
Century America Through the Eyes of Dickens, Wilde, Frances Trollope, Frank Harris, and
Other British Travelers. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000.
Sinifield, Alan. The Wilde
Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde, and the Queer Moment.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Wilde, Oscar. Collins
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Glasgow: Harper Collins,
1999.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. These resources provide an overview or summary of the topic.
The following titles are appropriate to this topic:
PS 21.D 5 vol. 34 Dictionary of Literary Biography, British
Novelists, 1890-1929, Traditionalists
Vol. 19 Modern British Dramatists, 1900-1945
Vol. 19 British Poets, 1880-1914
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
WEB SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
Authored by Alan Liu from the University of California, this is an excellent and very comprehensive literature site with links to thousands of web sites in all areas of the humanities. Easily accessed and easy to navigate. The homepage links to menus from 25 areas, from anthropology to women's studies.
Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Covers the major internet resources in the field, including authors, movements, and collections of electronic literary texts. Essential to researchers in English or American literature.
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02/08/2007
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