The Importance of Being Earnest Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism - A Norton Critical Edition

"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Karl Beckson, Sharon Marcus, and Michael Patrick Gillespie. "Early Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, including George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting review and other commentary by H. G. Wells, Hamilton Fyfe, and William Archer. "Essays in Criticism" includes seven diverse assessments-six of them new to the Second Edition-of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Burkhard Niederhoff, Christopher S. Nassaar, Clifton Snider, Brigitte Bastiat, Eibhear Walshe, and Maneck H. Daruwala. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included

ISBN:	9780393421972
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Imprint:	W.W. Norton and Company
Published date:	30 Jun 2022
DEWEY:	822.8
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	11431
Number of pages:	cm.
Weight:	200g
Height:	130mm
Width:	213mm
Spine width:	22mm

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