O Oscar Wilde, Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Stuart Mason
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Oscar Wilde, Art and Morality

A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

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  1. 01 - Art and Morality

    16:52

  2. 02 - A Study in Puppydom

    13:23

  3. 03 - Mr Wilde's Bad Case

    6:21

  4. 04 - Mr Oscar Wilde Again

    12:53

  5. 05 - Mr Oscar Wilde's Defence

    9:00

  6. 06 - Letter from "A London Editor"

    7:23

  7. 07 - Mr Oscar Wilde's Defence

    8:33

  8. 08 - "The Daily Chronicle" on "Dorian Gray"

    14:10

  9. 09 - "The Scots Observer's" Review. Oscar Wilde's Replies

    13:54

  10. 10 - Further Correspondence

    15:40

  11. 11 - Profuse and Perfervid

    9:15

  12. 12 - A Spiritualistic Review. By "NIZIDA"

    24:30

  13. 13 - Punch on "Dorian Gray"

    7:00

  14. 14 - A Revulsion from Realism. By Anne H. Wharton

    18:34

  15. 15 - The Romance of the Impossible. By Julian Hawthorne

    19:10

  16. 16 - Walter Pater on "Dorian Gray"

    15:42

  17. 17 - The Morality of "Dorian Gray"

    20:23

  18. 18 - Mr Robert Buchanan on Pagan Viciousness

    3:16

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Newspaper criticism of The Picture of Dorian Gray becomes a debate about the freedom of the artist in this collection edited by Stuart Mason. Published in 1908, the volume brings together reviews, eight letters by Oscar Wilde, and an introduction tracing the novel from its magazine appearance in 1890 to its expanded book edition the following year. Wilde challenges the authority of journalists to set limits on literary subjects and style.

The responses include Walter Pater's assessment and a spiritualistic review that interprets Dorian's decline through moral influence and ideas of earlier lives. A comparison of chapters, passages from the original edition, and a bibliography place the arguments beside the novel's publication record. Readers interested in literary controversy can follow how different critics connect beauty, character and responsibility, while Wilde insists on the artist's independence.

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