The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden itself..."
In true Faustian tradition The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the tale of a young man who sells his soul to the devil in return for youthful immortality, only to discover that the "devil's bargain" is no bargain at all. "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"
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When Dorian Gray is asked this question he knows the answer. He has learned his lesson the hard way and has added the destroyed lives of others into the bargain. The moral is inescapable, making The Picture of Dorian Gray more than merely a classic of Victorian literature. It is a classic of Christian literature also. This edition of Wilde's novel is edited by Joseph Pearce, author of The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, and contains critical essays that look at the work from a tradition-oriented perspective.
Essays
Now and again a critical take from yesteryear has an importance or such sparkling clarity of observation that we can't help but include it in the Ignatius Critical Edition of the work. For Wilde's novel, we've included classic criticism from the great Walter Pater.
A wide-ranging survey of the strands of literature that Wilde has hold of in this novel is given by Richard Harp. The overriding question of conscience, meanwhile, is addressed by Dominic Manganiello, who points particularly to Cardinal Newman as a source for the picture that emerges. [Read excerpt.]
Brian Vickers takes on the tale of conscience as one of influence: who influenced Dorian, who he influenced, and how it all leads to the tragic end.
Joseph Pearce situates the reader with the introductory essay.
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Meet the Minds behind the Picture of Dorian Gray Edition
Editor
Joseph Pearce
JOSEPH PEARCE is the acclaimed author of numerous literary studies, including Literary Converts, The Quest for Shakespeare, and Shakespeare on Love, as well as popular biographies of Oscar Wilde, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He is the general editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series.
Critical Essayists
Richard Harp
Richard Harp is chair of the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is founding coeditor of the Ben Jonson Journal (Edinburgh University Press), which publishes articles and reviews on all respects of Renaissance literature. He has published The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson (Cambridge University Press, 2001) with Stanley Stewart, fellow co-founder of the journal. He has also published books (with Robert Evans) on Frank O'Connor and Brian Friel and articles on other aspects of Irish literature. His article on Father Martin D'Arcy's unpublished literary correspondence was the cover story in the Times Literary Supplement on December 11, 2009.
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Dominic Manganiello
Dominic Manganiello is Professor of English Literature at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Joyce's Politics (1980), T. S. Eliot and Dante (1989), and co-author of Rethinking the Future of the University (1998). He has written extensively about Dante's impact on modern authors, including articles on Wilde, Chesterton, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, Evelyn Waugh, Seamus Heaney, and Wendell Berry.
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Brian Vickers
Brian Vickers serves as Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He received his BA from West Virginia University, MA from Wheaton College, and MDiv and PhD from Southern Seminary. He has published various works in the field of biblical and theological studies.
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