This critical study examines Oscar Wilde's "Commonplace Book" and "Notebook", which contain records of his education and serious reading in the late 1870s and early 1880s, when he was studying at Oxford University. His notes indicate how he developed the working philosophy which he was to use as a basis for his later critical and creative works. The text includes a physical description of the manuscripts, an introduction describing the intellectual influence of Wilde's family and their circle in Dublin, and a commentary which identifies sources in the notebooks and reinterprets Wilde's criticism and fiction.
- ISBN10 0195051335
- ISBN13 9780195051339
- Publish Date 26 January 1989
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 February 1999
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 276
- Language English