This Norton Critical Edition is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincott’s and the 1891 book versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray, allowing students to compare the two published versions with the editorial guidance of Michael Patrick Gillespie.

Preface

A Note on the Texts

The Texts of The Picture of Dorian Gray

 The Preface

 The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

 The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

Backgrounds

 Joris Karl Huysmans ? From Against Nature

 Walter Pater ? From “Leonardo Da Vinci”: Conclusion [to The Renaissance]

 Oscar Wilde ? From “The Critic as Artist”: From “The Decay of Lying”

Reviews and Reactions

 St. James’s Gazette ? A Study in Puppydom (June 24, 1890)

 Oscar Wilde ? To the Editor of the St. James’s Gazette (June 25, 1890)

 St. James’s Gazette ? Editorial Note (June 25, 1890)

 Oscar Wilde ? To the Editor of the St. James’s Gazette (June 26, 1890)

 St. James’s Gazette ? Editorial Note (June 26, 1890)

 Oscar Wilde ? To the Editor of the St. James’s Gazette (June 27, 1890)

 St. James’s Gazette ? Editorial Note (September 24, 1890)

 Daily Chronicle ? Review (June 30, 1890)

 Oscar Wilde ? To the Editor of the Daily Chronicle (June 30, 1890)

 Scots Observer ? From “Reviews and Magazines” (July 5, 1890)

 Oscar Wilde ? To the Editor of the Scots Observer (July 9, 1890)

 Julian Hawthorne ? The Romance of the Impossible

 Walter Pater ? A Novel by Mr. Oscar Wilde

 ART VERSUS MORALITY: DORIAN GRAY ON TRIAL

 From Edward Carson’s Cross-Examination of Wilde (First Trial)

 From Edward Carson’s Opening Speech for the Defense (First Trial)

Criticism

 Michael Patrick Gillespie ? Picturing Dorian Gray: Resistant Readings in Wilde’s Novel

 Simon Joyce ? Sexual Politics and the Aesthetics of Crime: Oscar Wilde in the Nineties

 Donald L. Lawler ? Oscar Wilde's First Manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray

 Sheldon W. Liebman ? Character Design in The Picture of Dorian Gray

 Maureen O’Connor ? The Picture of Dorian Gray as Irish National Tale

 Ellie Ragland-Sullivan ? The Phenomenon of Aging in Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray: A Lacanian View

 John Paul Riquelme ? Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Gothic: Walter Pater, Dark Enlightenment, and The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography