Outside Swan and Edgar’s
Matthew Sweet: The life of Oscar Wilde, 5 February 1998
The Wilde Album
by Merlin Holland.
Fourth Estate, 192 pp., £12.99, October 1997,1 85702 782 5 Show More
by Merlin Holland.
Fourth Estate, 192 pp., £12.99, October 1997,
Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of Art
by Julia PrewittBrown.
Virginia, 157 pp., $30, September 1997,9780813917283 Show More
by Julia PrewittBrown.
Virginia, 157 pp., $30, September 1997,
The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde
edited by Peter Raby.
Cambridge, 307 pp., £37.50, October 1997,9780521474719 Show More
edited by Peter Raby.
Cambridge, 307 pp., £37.50, October 1997,
Moab is my Washpot
by Stephen Fry.
Hutchinson, 343 pp., £16.99, October 1997,0 09 180161 3 Show More
by Stephen Fry.
Hutchinson, 343 pp., £16.99, October 1997,
Nothing … except My Genius
by Oscar Wilde.
Penguin, 82 pp., £2.99, October 1997,0 14 043693 6 Show More
by Oscar Wilde.
Penguin, 82 pp., £2.99, October 1997,
“... a paedophile,’ snorted Christopher Hart on the day Brian Gilbert’s movie Wilde was released). Julia PrewittBrown sees him as a philosophical heavyweight; and celebrates his ‘dodginess’ in order to instal him in a post-dualist tradition of aesthetic theory – a missing link between Kierkegaard and Adorno. For ... ”
