Wilde Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde

by Neil Sammells

This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current Wilde criticism, the book demonstrates the way his own critical essays anticipate much contemporary cultural theory and inform his own practice as a writer.

152 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Neil Sammells is Dean of Humanities and Reader in English at Bath College of Higher Education.