To each his or her own Wilde.(The Faiths of Oscar Wilde)(Book review)

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From: Irish Literary Supplement
Date: 20060922
Author:Rose, D.C.

JARLATH KILLEEN The Faiths of Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan 2005.

TO EACH, HIS OR HER OSCAR WILDE. For every new collection of Wilde's epigrams, for every new coffee mug, fridge magnet and pair of cuff-links, there is, fortunately, a new work exploring in many ways and many languages the diversity of Wilde, from Christopher S. Nassaar's recent novel The Importance of being Earnest Revisited, via Isaure de Saint-Pierre's new book Bosie and Wilde, which is fiction pretending to be biography, to the forthcoming volume on teaching Wilde that the MLA has commissioned from Philip ...

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