Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Humanist

By Bruce Bashford

Readers of WildeOs critical writingsstruggle to determine what he is saying. The first half of this book clearly defines thetheoretical tasks Wilde setshimself and the ways he tries to accomplish them. The bookOs second half argues that WildeOs criticism is an expression of humanism. What emerges is WildeOs success in recasting the humanist tradition in the light of his own unconventional intellectual commitments.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611471613
• ISBN13: 9781611471618
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 197 Pages