Thomas De Quincey’s “Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” a satirical essay, is one apparent source. Wilde used a myriad of comic sources to shape his story. Though Wilde offers a comic treatment, he finds inspiration for Sir Simon’s character in Alfred Tennyson’s serious poem “Maud,” as well as in the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Christabel.” Critics also point to the possible influence of Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady (1881) on “The Canterville Ghost.” In “The Canterville Ghost,” Wilde draws upon fairy tales, Gothic novels, and stories of Americans abroad to shape his comic ghost story. More recently critics have celebrated Wilde’s ability to play with the conventions of many genres. The collected stories were severely criticized by contemporary reviewers early critics found Wilde’s work unoriginal and derivative. In 1891, “The Canterville Ghost” was republished in Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, and Other Stories. The story did not immediately receive much critical attention, and indeed Wilde was not viewed as an important author until the publication, during the 1890s, of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and of several well-received plays, including The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).

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This book features in the reading list recommended by the CBSE. Wilde's tale of the American family that moves into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost, whose existence the family refuses to believe.

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