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dc.contributor.authorWilde, Oscaren_US
dc.contributor.authorFrankel, Nicholasen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-12T01:19:46Z
dc.date.available2017-09-12T01:19:46Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-674-06631-1en_US
dc.identifier.isbn0674066316en_US
dc.identifier.otherHPU4161340en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://lib.hpu.edu.vn/handle/123456789/26716
dc.description.abstractMore 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.en_US
dc.format.extent574 p.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBelknap Press of Harvard University Pressen_US
dc.subjectSocietyen_US
dc.subjectReformationen_US
dc.subjectNovelen_US
dc.titleThe unintended Reformation : how a religious revolution secularized societyen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.size845Kben_US
dc.departmentSociologyen_US


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