TY - BOOK AU - Raby, Peter TI - The Cambridge companion to Oscar Wilde SN - 0521479878 AV - PR5824. C36 PY - 2000/// PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 --Criticism and interpretation N1 - pt. 1. Context -- [ch]. 1. Biography and the art of lying / Merlin Holland -- [ch]. 2. Wilde and the Victorians / Regenia Gagnier -- [ch]. 3. Wilde and the dandyism of the senses / Stephen Calloway -- pt. 2. Wilde's works -- [ch]. 4. Wilde as poet / Karl Beckson and Bobby Fong -- [ch]. 5. Wilde the journalist / John Stokes -- [ch]. 6. Wilde as critic and theorist / Lawrence Danson -- [ch]. 7. Wilde's fiction(s) / Jerusha McCormack -- [ch]. 8. Distance, death and desire in Salome / Joseph Donohue -- [ch]. 9. Wilde's comedies of society / Peter Raby -- [ch].10. The importance of being earnest / Russell Jackson -- pt. 3. Themes and influences -- [ch].11. A verdict of death : Oscar Wilde, actresses and Victorian women / Kerry Powell -- [ch]. 12. 'A complex multiform creature' : Wilde's sexual identities / Joseph Bristow -- [ch]. 13. Wilde's plays : some lines of influence / Richard Allen Cave -- [ch]. 14. Wilde on the stage / Joel Kaplan -- [ch]. 15. Oscar Wilde : the resurgence of lying / Declan Kiberd ER -