Oscar Wilde: a 'writerly' life

For many of Wilde's works there are numerous manuscript and typescript texts and drafts; many works, too, exist in more than one published version. This fortunate circumstance allows us to study his methods as a writer, and it affords modern scholars a degree of intimacy with him not available...

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Published in:	Modern drama 1994-04, Vol.37 (1), p.3-11
Main Authors:	Jackson, Russell, Small, Ian
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1800-1899 Authors biography British & Irish literature Drama English Literature History & criticism Irish literature Nineteenth Century Personal profiles textual criticism Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) Writers Writing
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Summary:	For many of Wilde's works there are numerous manuscript and typescript texts and drafts; many works, too, exist in more than one published version. This fortunate circumstance allows us to study his methods as a writer, and it affords modern scholars a degree of intimacy with him not available to earlier critics. The constant revision of his work exhibited in the manuscripts and typescripts will be documented in the forthcoming Oxford English Texts edition of Wilde's works. But does this material have implications beyond textual scholarship? Does acknowledge of Wilde's writing practices bear in any way on his biography?
ISSN:	0026-7694 1712-5286 1712-5286