{"product_id":"the-picture-of-dorian-gray-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393696875","title":"The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Norton Critical Edition includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe 1890 (\u003cem\u003eLippincott's Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e) version and the 1891 (book) version of the novel. Under the editorial guidance of Wilde scholar Michael Patrick Gillespie, students have the opportunity to comparatively read and analyze both texts of this controversial novel.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEditorial matter by Michael Patrick Gillespie.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\"Backgrounds\" and \"Reviews and Reactions\" sections that allow readers to gauge \u003cem\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/em\u003e's sensational reception and to consider the heated public debate over art and morality that followed--including Oscar Wilde's vehement replies to individual critics.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSeven critical essays--six of them new to the Third Edition--that address the novel's major themes: aestheticism, decadence, and vice. Contributors include Joseph Carroll, Nils Clausson, Emily Eells, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Richard Haslam, Donald L. Lawler, and Ellen Scheible.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA chronology and a selected bibliography.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Series\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGillespie, Michael Patrick:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michael Patrick Gillespie is Professor of English at Florida International University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eOscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBranding Oscar Wilde\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Aesthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInverted Volumes Improperly Arranged: James Joyce and His Trieste Library\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReading the Book Himself: Narrative Strategies in the Works of James Joyce\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Aesthetics of Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Myth of an Irish Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJames Joyce and the Exilic Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReading William Kennedy\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eFilm Appreciation through Genres\u003c\/em\u003e. His other edited works include the Norton Critical Edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Importance of Being Earnest\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJames Joyce and the Fabrication of an Irish Identity\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJoyce through the Ages: A Non-Linear View\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646591799570,"sku":"9780393696875","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_39527562-1aee-4926-a1a6-cc0523fb2832.jpg?v=1733181341","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393696875","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}