Description: This Handbook puts Wilde the Icon into an expansive literary, cultural, and dramatic context. Its thirty-six contributors offer a readable guide to Wilde studies for the early twenty-first century. Its comprehensive discussions of his writings show how these interact with, and transfigure, both their age and his life.
Review Quotes: "The volume offers not merely a comprehensive survey of current Wilde scholarship, but also a fascinating reâstaging of Wilde's life as performance, as dramaturgy, as aesthetic construction." -- Pierpaolo Martino, Irish Studies Review
"...the Handbook represents an important contribution to Wilde studies that will surely prove a useful reference point for years to come." -- The Wildean