Joseph Bristow

Joseph Bristow is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he edits Nineteenth-Century Literature. His recent books include The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, Oscar Wilde: Contextual Conditions, and the variorum edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.


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Cover of The Fin-de-Siècle Poem

The Fin-de-Siècle Poem

English Literary Culture and the 1890s

Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siècle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in England.…


Cover of Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture

Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture

The Making of a Legend

Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer’s reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas.…

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