Adams, James Eli, Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995).
Beckson, Karl,
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New York:
AMS Press,
1995).
Beckson, Karl (ed.), Oscar Wilde: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970).
Behrendt, Patricia Flanagan, Oscar Wilde: Eros and Aesthetics (London: Macmillan, 1991).
Bennett, Michael Y. (ed.),
Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome (
Amsterdam:
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2011).
Bird, Alan, The Plays of Oscar Wilde (London: Vision Press, 1977).
Böker, Uwe, Corballis, Richard and Hibbard, Julie (eds.), The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde during the Last Hundred Years (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002).
Brake, Laurel,
Subjugated Knowledges: Journalism, Gender and Literature in the Nineteenth Century (
London:
Macmillan,
1994).
Bristow, Joseph,
Effeminate England: Homoerotic Writing after 1885 (
New York:
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1995).
Bristow, Joseph (ed.), Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions (University of Toronto Press, 2003).
Bristow, Joseph (ed.), Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008).
Brown, Julia Prewitt,
Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy of Art (
Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia,
1997).
Caine, Barbara, English Feminism, c.1780–1980 (Oxford University Press, 1998).
Calloway, Stephen (ed.),
The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde 1860–1900 (
London:
Victoria & Albert Museum,
2011).
Chamberlin, J. E., Ripe was the Drowsy Hour: The Age of Oscar Wilde (New York: Seabury, 1977).
Cocks, Harry, Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the Nineteenth Century (London: Tauris, 2003).
Cohen, Ed,
Talk on the Wilde Side: Toward a Genealogy of a Discourse on Male Sexualities (
New York:
Routledge,
1993).
Cohen, Philip K., The Moral Vision of Oscar Wilde (London: Associated University Press, 1978; Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1979).
Cook, Matt, London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Danson, Lawrence,
Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism (
Oxford University Press,
1997).
Dellamora, Richard, Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990).
Dijkstra, Bram, Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture (Oxford University Press, 1986).
Dollimore, Jonathan,
Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault (
Oxford:
Clarendon Press,
1991).
Dowling, Linda,
Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (
Princeton University Press,
1986).
Dowling, Linda, Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994).
Ellmann, Richard (ed.),
Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays (
Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice Hall,
1969).
Eltis, Sos,
Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde (
Oxford:
Clarendon Press,
1996).
Eltis, Sos, Acts of Desire: Women and Sex on Stage, 1800–1930 (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Ericksen, Donald H., Oscar Wilde (New York: Twayne, 1977).
Evangelista, Stefano,
British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece: Hellenism, Reception, Gods in Exile (
New York:
Palgrave,
2009).
Finney, Gail, Women in Modern Drama: Freud, Feminism, and European Theater at the Turn of the Century (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989).
Foldy, Michael, The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997).
Gagnier, Regenia A.,
Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (
Stanford University Press,
1986).
Gagnier, Regenia A. (ed.), Critical Essays on Oscar Wilde (New York: Twayne, 1991).
Gere, Charlotte and
Hoskins, Lesley,
‘The House Beautiful’: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Interior (
Aldershot:
Lund Humphries and the Geffrye Museum,
2000).
Guy, Josephine M. and
Small, Ian,
Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century (
Oxford University Press,
2000).
Guy, Josephine M. and Small, Ian, Studying Oscar Wilde: History, Criticism, and Myth (Greensboro, NC: ELT Press, 2006).
Jackson, Holbrook,
The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (
London:
Grant Richards,
1913).
Jenkyns, Richard,
The Victorians and Ancient Greece (
Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press,
1980).
Kaplan, Joel (ed.),
Modern Drama (Special Wilde number), 12.1 (
1994).
Kaplan, Joel and
Stowell, Sheila,
Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes (
Cambridge University Press,
1994).
Killeen, Jarlath,
The Faiths of Oscar Wilde: Catholicism, Folklore and Ireland (
London:
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005).
Killeen, Jarlath, The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (London: Ashgate, 2007).
Killeen, Jarlath (ed.), Oscar Wilde: Irish Writers in Their Time (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2010).
Kingston, Angela, Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Knox, Melissa, Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994).
Kohl, Norbert, Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Livesey, Ruth, Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880–1914 (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Markey, Anne,
Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales: Origins and Context (
Dublin:
Irish Academic Press,
2011).
Marshall, Gail (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
McCormack, Jerusha (ed.), Wilde the Irishman (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998).
Meltzer, Françoise,
Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature (
University of Chicago Press,
1987).
Mendelssohn, Michèle,
Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture (
Edinburgh University Press,
2008).
Morgan, Margery, File on Wilde (London: Methuen, 1990).
Nassaar, Christopher, Into the Demon Universe: A Literary Exploration of Oscar Wilde (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974).
Nunakowa, Jeff, Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire (Princeton University Press, 2003).
Pine, Richard, Oscar Wilde (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1983).
Pine, Richard, The Thief of Reason: Oscar Wilde and Modern Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1995).
Powell, Kerry,
Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s (
Cambridge University Press,
1990).
Powell, Kerry, Women and Victorian Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Powell, Kerry, Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Raby, Peter,
Oscar Wilde (
Cambridge University Press,
1988).
Raby, Peter,
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reader's Companion (
New York:
Twayne,
1995).
Raby, Peter (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Ransome, Arthur, Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study (London: Methuen, 1913).
Roden, Frederick S. (ed.), Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Roditi, Edouard, Oscar Wilde (Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1947).
Ross, Iain,
Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece (
Cambridge University Press,
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San Juan, Epifanio, The Art of Oscar Wilde (Princeton University Press, 1967).
Sandulescu, C. George (ed.),
Rediscovering Oscar Wilde, Princess
Grace Irish Library Series 8 (
Gerrards Cross:
Colin Smythe,
1994).
Schmidgall, Gary, The Stranger Wilde: Interpreting Oscar (London: Abacus, 1994).
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Our Theatres in the Nineties, in
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London:
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Shellard, Dominic and
Nicholson, Steve with
Handley, Miriam,
The Lord Chamberlain Regrets: A History of British Theatre Censorship (
London:
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Shewan, Rodney,
Oscar Wilde: Art and Egotism (
London:
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Sinfield, Alan,
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Sloan, John,
Oscar Wilde: Authors in Context (
Oxford University Press,
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Smith, Philip E. II and
Helfand, Michael S. (eds.),
Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making (
New York:
Oxford University Press,
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Stephens, John Russell,
The Censorship of English Drama, 1824–1901 (
Cambridge University Press,
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Stokes, John,
Oscar Wilde, British Council Writers and Their Work Series (
London:
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Stokes, John, In the Nineties (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989).
Stokes, John, Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Sullivan, Kevin,
Oscar Wilde (
New York:
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Symons, Arthur,
A Study of Oscar Wilde (
London:
Charles J. Sawyer,
1930).
Tanitch, Robert, Oscar Wilde on Stage and Screen (London: Methuen, 1999).
Thornton, R. K. R., The Decadent Dilemma (London: Edward Arnold, 1983).
Turner, Frank M.,
The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain (
New Haven, CT:
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Tydeman, William (ed.), Wilde, Comedies: A Selection of Critical Essays (London: Macmillan, 1982).
Tydeman, William and Price, Steven, Salome (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Varty, Ann,
A Preface to Oscar Wilde (
Harlow:
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Voskuil, Lynn, Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004).
Waldrep, Shelton, The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
Walsh, Éibhear,
Oscar's Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland (
Cork University Press,
2012).
Woodcock, George, The Paradox of Oscar Wilde (London: T. V. Boardman, 1949).
Worth, Katharine,
The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett (
London:
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1978).
Worth, Katharine, Oscar Wilde (London: Macmillan, 1980).
Wright, Thomas,
Oscar's Books (
London:
Chatto & Windus,
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Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2009).
Yeats, W. B., Autobiographies (London: Macmillan, 1955).
Zagona, Helen Grace,
The Legend of Salome and the Principle of Art for Art's Sake (
Geneva:
Ambilly-Annemasse,
1960).
Many specialized articles are listed in the endnotes to the essays in this volume, as well as other books. For new listings, and for other aspects of the context of Wilde's work, see bibliographies in, for example, English Literature in Transition, Modern Drama, Nineteenth Century Theatre, Victorian Newsletter and The Year's Work in English Studies.
The volumes listed above edited by Karl Beckson, Richard Ellmann, Regenia Gagnier and William Tydeman provide an excellent introduction to the range of critical essays and reviews on Wilde. The collection edited by George Sandulescu reprints the papers given at the Wilde Conference in Monaco, 1993.
For meticulous and illuminating commentary on Wilde scholarship, see Ian Small, Oscar Wilde Revalued and Oscar Wilde: Recent Research.