This functionality is provided solely for your convenience and is in no way intended to replace human translation. You have requested "on-the-fly" machine translation of selected content from our databases. Killeen's learned, well-written study includes notes, a bibliography, and index that will be helpful to scholars of Wilde, Irish studies. Unfortunately, Killeen's book lacks a concluding chapter that might present his generalizations about Wilde's fairy tales as a group, or that might address how the first volume of tales differs from the second however, the final paragraph in the book does summarize his approach to Wilde's tales. Each of the nine chapters begins with a detailed review of the criticism of the fairy tale that is the chapter's focus, then explains the author's deviation from the standard view of that tale through the inclusion of Irish Catholic history. He starts with an introduction that explores "the critical history of the fairy tales and attempt to explain why they have received relatively little attention" (1).
is considered a didactic and conservative form" (1).
Killeen observes that Wilde's two volumes of fairy tales, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), have been marginal to his canon in part because they do not fit into the usual view of Wilde as "a subversive writer" and in part "because children's literature. On the faculty at Trinity College, Dublin, Killeen provides a late nineteenth- century Irish Catholic context for Oscar Wilde's fairy tales as a way to better understand them.
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