The Happy Prince and Other Tales

The Happy Prince and Other Tales Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Wilde, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Stories. London: Puffin Books, 2016.
  • Wood, Naomi. "Creating the Sensual Child: Paterian Aesthetics, Pederasty, and Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales." Marvels & Tales 16, no. 2 (2002): 156-70.

  • Jones, Justin T. "Morality's Ugly Implications in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 51, no. 4 (2011): 883-903.

  • Quintus, John Allen. "The Moral Perogative in Oscar Wilde: A Look at the Fairy Tales." The Virginia Quarterly Review 53, no. 4 (1977): 708-17.

  • Hodgkins, Hope Howell. "White Blossoms and Snozzcumbers: Alternative Sentimentalities in the Giants of Oscar Wilde and Roald Dahl." CEA Critic 65, no. 1 (2002): 41-49.

  • Nassaar, Christopher S. "Andersen's 'The Shadow' and Wilde's 'The Fisherman and His Soul': A Case of Influence." Nineteenth-Century Literature 50, no. 2 (1995): 217-24.

  • Schultz, Matthew. "Coalescing Oscar Wilde: Discussing Wilde's Decadent Aesthetic Using His Essays, Fairy Tales, and Biography." Eureka Studies In Teaching Short Fiction 9, no. 2 (2009): 79-88.

  • Kotzin, Michael C. "'The Selfish Giant' as Literary Fairy Tale." Studies In Short Fiction 16, no. 4 (1979): 301.

  • Martin, Robert K. "Oscar Wilde and the Fairy Tale: 'The Happy Prince' as Self-Dramatization." Studies In Short Fiction 16, no. 1 (1979): 74.

  • Marsh, Sarah. "Twice Upon a Time: The Importance of Rereading 'The Devoted Friend.'" Children's Literature 36 (2008): 72-87.

  • Burdett, Carolyn. "Aestheticism and Decadence." The British Library. 9/3/18. <https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/aestheticism-and-decadence>.
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