Oscar Wilde in America
The Interviews
Oscar Wilde author Gary Scharnhorst editor Matthew Hofer editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:2nd Jul '13
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Oscar Wilde's grand U.S. tour, captured in dozens of newspaper interviews
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.
"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, editor of Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry "This stimulating work is an invaluable record of Wilde's speech, appearance, and demeanor. An excitingly fresh study of interest both to Wilde specialists and to general readers."--Donald Mead, chairman of the Oscar Wilde Society and editor of The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde StudiesISBN: 9780252079726
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 313g
208 pages