Approaches to teaching the works of Oscar Wilde.

9781603290104

Approaches to teaching the works of Oscar Wilde.

Ed. by Philip E. Smith II.

Modern Language Association

2008

278 pages

$19.75

Paperback

Approaches to teaching world literature; v.103

PR5824

For undergraduate professors and graduate students, this volume details how to teach the works of Oscar Wilde, with advice on editions, resources, online resources, and criticism to use, followed by 25 essays on teaching specific works, including his stories, fairy tales, essays, poetry, criticism, letters, The Picture of Dorian Gray, comedies like The Importance of Being Earnest, and plays such as Salome, as well as his life and legal trials. Essays cover teaching in disciplines such as comparative arts, theater history and dramatic literature, gender studies, English studies, and religious studies, and are written by scholars of these and other fields from the US, Canada, and Europe.

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