This book examines the various ways in which the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling was read and responded to by British readers and writers during the nineteenth century. Challenging the idea tha
Oscar Wilde is more than a name, more than an author. From precocious Oxford undergraduate to cause celebre of the West End of the 1890s, to infamous criminal, the proper name Wilde has become an even
Drawing from research he conducted for his PhD at the University of Manchester, Whiteley interprets the life and work of British novelist and critic Pater (1839-94) as a series of his readings and re-
