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Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America
Jr. Roy Morris
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Description for Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America
Hardback. Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-years-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. This narrative reveals that Wilde was underselling himself. Num Pages: 264 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveals in this sparkling narrative, Wilde was, for the first time in his life, underselling himself. A chronicle of the sensation that was Wilde's eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Wilde covered 15,000 miles, delivered 140 lectures, and met everyone who was anyone. Dressed in satin knee britches and black silk stockings, the long-haired apostle of ... Read more
Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveals in this sparkling narrative, Wilde was, for the first time in his life, underselling himself. A chronicle of the sensation that was Wilde's eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Wilde covered 15,000 miles, delivered 140 lectures, and met everyone who was anyone. Dressed in satin knee britches and black silk stockings, the long-haired apostle of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674066960
SKU
V9780674066960
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About Jr. Roy Morris
Roy Morris, Jr., is the editor of Military Heritage and the author of six previous books on nineteenth-century American history and literature, including The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War.
Reviews for Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America
Morris chronicles a year in the life of Irish dandy and belletrist Wilde, who, at age 27, was bent on invading America the way Dickens had a generation before... Wilde was a self-promoting genius, Morris writes, 'created, cultivated and commodified,' like celebrities today. He hadn't yet written his famous works or openly embraced gayness, but in his elaborate, precious outfits, ... Read more