Few authors of the Victorian period were as immersed in classical learning as Oscar Wilde. Although famous now and during his lifetime as a wit, aesthete, and m

Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.

Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rh

This title offers a compact history of the meanings and uses of plagiarism from antiquity to the present. It is an interpretation of Oscar Wilde's plagiarism an

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.