Lawrence Danson

Max Beerbohm was an elusive and marginal genius--marginal in the sense that he always assumed the role of parodist, looking in from the edges, and taking a literary position shunned by more mainstream artists. In this study of Max Beerbohm's writings and drawings, many of which are reproduced, Danson rediscovers Beerbohm in all his phases and transformations, from the relatively well-known Zuleika Dobson, Seven Men, and Rossetti and his Circle, to the previously unknown, abandoned novella The Mirror of the Past. He shows how Beerbohm's unusual essays turn into fiction as we read them, how his fiction turns into parody, his parody into criticism, his criticism into caricature, and his caricatures into essays--all the time remaining his own best literary caricature, the incomparable and impeccable Max.

Max Beerbohm and the Act of Writing

Wilde's Intentions is the first extended study of Oscar Wilde in his role of `the critic as artist'. Lawrence Danson shows how Wilde's essays and dialogues sought to create a new ideal of English culture, elevating what he called `lies' above history and ending the sway of `nature' over liberated human desire.

The Artist in His Criticism

Wilde's Intentions

Lawrence (Professor of English Danson, Professor of English Princeton University)

Danson's guide to the kinds of Shakespearian drama provides a history of genre-theory in Shakespeare's day, an overview of the genres on the Elizabethan stage, and a look at the range of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies.

Lawrence Danson

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