The edition also emphasizes the role of gender and the rise of female emancipation underlying the Sybil Vane subplot, a focus on women that intensifies the book's relevance to modern transformations of men and women alike.

List of Illustrations
About Longman Cultural Editions
About This Edition
Introduction
Table of Dates
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Contexts
Reviews
Aestheticism
Victorian Attitudes to Sex
Late Victorian Science
Parodies
Questions for Study
Further Reading