Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde

Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-236

  Eltis, Sos ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Oscar Wilde; Plays; Political drama; Social conventions; Society play; Victorian literature; Victorian society

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941130958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198121831.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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