Richard A. Kaye is Professor of English at Hunter College and in the Ph.D. Program in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the editor of The D. H. Lawrence Review, the fifty-year old scholarly journal devoted to the British writer.

• Introduction: The Haunting of Dorian Gray The Precedents, Sources, and Literary Contexts of Dorian Gray 1: The Picture of Dorian Gray and the Aesthetic Tradition: Faithful Allusion, Perilous Misquotation 2: The Picture That Failed, or the Light of Dorian Gray 3: "What Never Dies": The Picture of Dorian Gray and Its Afterlife in French Literature and Art The Visual Imagination of The Picture of Dorian Gray 4: Picturing Dorian: Temporality, Abstraction, and Modernity in The Picture of Dorian Gray 5: Illustrating Dorian Gray: The Contingent Ephemerality of Beauty Dorian Gray's Philosophical, Cultural, and Erotic Entanglements 6: The Vitality of Dorian Gray: Darwinism, Philosophy, Life 7: "A Form of Reverie, a Malady of Dreaming": Dorian Gray, Personality, and Mass Culture 8: Dorian Gray's Generic Hybridity and the Aesthetics of Queer Form The Formal Vicissitudes of a Decadent Novel 9: Exquisite Fantasy: Language and Anti-Mimesis in The Picture of Dorian Gray 10: Fin-de-Siècle Feelings: Melodrama and the Aesthetics and Ethics of Emotion in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray 11: The Most Decadent Chapter: Ornamentation, Influence, and the Challenge to Realism in The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian Gray's Afterlife in Fiction, Film, Theater, Dance, and Performance 12: The Vienna "Dorian Gray Epidemic" of 1907: Theatrical Distortion, Critical Dissent, and the First Stagings of Wilde's Novel 13: Red Herrings and Yellow Birds: The 1945 Hollywood Film The Picture of Dorian Gray 14: Dorian Gray Forever: Decadence, Glamor, and the Vicissitudes of Pop Culture Adaptation

This new book discusses the cultural context of Dorian Gray in the 19th century, both British and European; relevant media of modernism of the 20th century; and 21st-century art and pop culture. The essays in this new book are helpfully researched, well written, and useful in relation to adaptational art and contemporary theories. Recommended for advanced undergraduates and research libraries.