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- catalog abstract ""A materialist account of Wilde's career as a writer, Oscar Wilde's Profession contests three widely held assumptions about his success: that there is a clear distinction between his life as a journalist and his artistic celebrity; that he was an aesthetic 'purist' in his attitude towards his own books; and that his career was driven largely by oppositional sexual or nationalist politics. The authors bring together evidence from the publishing trade, from Wilde's contracts and correspondence with publishers, and from documentation about his earnings (particularly the plays) to show that he always worked for money, but that he achieved far less financial success than is usually thought. Far from subverting the nascent consumerism of his time, he was thoroughly immersed in its values - in the commodification of culture in which books became product. At the same time, Oscar Wilde's Profession provides a uniquely detailed account of Wilde's processes of composition, springing from the re-examination of his writing practice currently being undertaken in the Oxford English Texts edition of his complete work. It surveys his writing practices across the whole of the oeuvre, and radically reinterprets the significance of his revision and 'plagiarism'."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12102099.
- catalog contributor b12102100.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""A materialist account of Wilde's career as a writer, Oscar Wilde's Profession contests three widely held assumptions about his success: that there is a clear distinction between his life as a journalist and his artistic celebrity; that he was an aesthetic 'purist' in his attitude towards his own books; and that his career was driven largely by oppositional sexual or nationalist politics. The authors bring together evidence from the publishing trade, from Wilde's contracts and correspondence with publishers, and from documentation about his earnings (particularly the plays) to show that he always worked for money, but that he achieved far less financial success than is usually thought. Far from subverting the nascent consumerism of his time, he was thoroughly immersed in its values - in the commodification of culture in which books became product. At the same time, Oscar Wilde's Profession provides a uniquely detailed account of Wilde's processes of composition, springing from the re-examination of his writing practice currently being undertaken in the Oxford English Texts edition of his complete work. It surveys his writing practices across the whole of the oeuvre, and radically reinterprets the significance of his revision and 'plagiarism'."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-305) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 314 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Oscar Wilde's profession.".
- catalog identifier "0198187289 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Oscar Wilde's profession.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Oscar Wilde's profession.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "828/.809 21".
- catalog subject "Authors and publishers Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature publishing Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PR5827.A9 G89 2000".
- catalog subject "Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Relations with publishers.".
- catalog subject "Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Technique.".
- catalog title "Oscar Wilde's profession : writing and the culture industry in the late nineteenth century / Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".