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Smith's detailed transcription and careful footnoting provide an excellent framework for exploring Wilde's process of critical thought, scholarly research and development of language. There is a fresh perspective here on his raw relationship with the classical historians and philosophers. Eve Wersocki Morris, Times Literary Supplement

Smith's detailed transcription and careful footnoting provide an excellent framework for exploring Wilde's process of critical thought, scholarly research and development of language. There is a fresh perspective here on his raw relationship with the classical historians and philosophers. * Eve Wersocki Morris, Times Literary Supplement * First impressions count: this is a beautiful book, in the finest traditions of reference volumes from its press. I had not handled a new volume of this quality in years; it is built to last, and I envisage its handsomely plain binding, heavy paper and sturdy spine gracing the shelves of reference libraries for more than one human lifetime. Its contents merit the bookmaker's pains. ... we have a full and meticulous transcription of a manuscript notebook in which the young Oscar Wilde collected many of the materials he was to use in his important though incomplete early essay 'Historical Criticism'. Smith, an editor of many years' experience and deeply familiar with the Wildean corpus, demonstrates this convincingly in his well judged and concise introduction. ... In sum, Smith has gifted Wildean scholarship with a work of extraordinary quality, and has made available a new primary source along with all the help its potential readers could possibly desire. * Gideon Nisbet, The Wildean *

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Philip E. Smith is Associate Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught from 1970-2014. He chaired the department from 1987 to 1995 and won the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching and Chancellor's Distinguished Service Awards. He received the Association of Departments of English (ADE) Francis Andrew March Award in 1999. With Michael S. Helfand, he co-authored and co-edited Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making (Oxford University Press, 1989). He edited Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde (MLA, 2008). He has also written articles and chapters on Wilde, Constance Naden, Robert Heinlein, Ursula Le Guin, Brian Aldiss, August Wilson, John Galsworthy, Charles Olson, and on issues of curriculum, staffing, and teaching in the profession of English studies.

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