Emily Eells, dir., Wilde in Earnest

Abstract

In Wilde in Earnest, Emily Eells has gathered some excellent pieces of scholarship written specifically about Oscar Wilde’s last comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The contributors include famous Wilde scholars from all over the world. The beauty of the book’s title is truer to its content than the rather austere cover design is, and admirers of Oscar Wilde, for whom style is a vital thing, should not let themselves be affected by it. Emily Eells’s introduction takes up William A..