TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilde,Oscar
AU  - Frankel,Nicholas
TI  - The uncensored picture of Dorian Gray
SN  - 9780674068049
AV  - PR5819.A2 F73 2012eb
U1  - 823/.8 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Appearance (Philosophy)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Apparence (Philosophie)
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Morale pratique
KW  - FICTION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Classics
KW  - fast
KW  - Roman
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Didactic fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Preface. -- General introduction. -- Textual introduction. -- The picture of Dorian Gray. -- Notes. -- Appendix: The 1891 preface to The picture of Dorian Gray. -- Further reading
N2  - This is the uncensored version of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. The volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor; More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the material removed by the novel's first editor. Upon receipt of the typescript, Wilde's editor panicked at what he saw. Contained within its pages was material he feared readers would find "offensive"--Especially instances of graphic homosexual content. He proceeded to go through the typescript with his pencil, cleaning it up until he made it "acceptable to the most fastidious taste." Wilde did not see these changes until his novel appeared in print. Wilde's editor's concern was well placed. Even in its redacted form, the novel caused public outcry. The British press condemned it as "vulgar," "unclean," "poisonous," "discreditable," and "a sham." When Wilde later enlarged the novel for publication in book form, he responded to his critics by further toning down its "immoral" elements. Wilde famously said that The Picture of Dorian Gray "contains much of me": Basil Hallward is "what I think I am," Lord Henry "what the world thinks me," and "Dorian what I would like to be-in other ages, perhaps." Wilde's comment suggests a backward glance to a Greek or Dorian Age, but also a forward-looking view to a more permissive time than his own repressive Victorian era. By implication, Wilde would have preferred we read today the uncensored version of his novel
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