Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century

Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-322

  Guy, Josephine M ^a   Small, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composition; Consumerism; Correspondence; Nineteenth century; Oscar Wilde; Plagiarism; Professional writer; Revision; Writing practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958255132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198187288.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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