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Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
Oscar Wilde
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Description for Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
Hardback. Oscar Wilde's grand U.S. tour, captured in dozens of newspaper interviews Editor(s): Hofer, Matthew; Scharnhorst, Gary. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 photographs; 1 drawing. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 462.
Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and he tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. This exceptional volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America.
Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and he tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. This exceptional volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252034725
SKU
V9780252034725
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About Oscar Wilde
Matthew Hofer is an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Gary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico and the author of Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West and other works.
Reviews for Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
"A generous and welcome sampling."
New York Review of Books "Highly recommended."
Choice "[A] rewarding, absorbing, and necessary book."
The Gay and Lesbian Review "Wilde was a source of fascination and provocation, and these assembled portraits reveal the rawness and the refinements, the pride and the anxieties, of American culture in the making during this important period. A vital and valuable book."
Eric Haralson, ... Read more
New York Review of Books "Highly recommended."
Choice "[A] rewarding, absorbing, and necessary book."
The Gay and Lesbian Review "Wilde was a source of fascination and provocation, and these assembled portraits reveal the rawness and the refinements, the pride and the anxieties, of American culture in the making during this important period. A vital and valuable book."
Eric Haralson, ... Read more