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Declaring his genius : Oscar Wilde in North America
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ISBN: 0674067878 0674066960 0674071395 9780674067875 9780674066960 9780674071391 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

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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 the British Aesthetic Movement alternately shocked, entertained, and enlightened a spellbound nation. Harvard students attending one of his lectures sported Wildean costume, clutching sunflowers and affecting world-weary poses. Denver prostitutes enticed customers by crying: "We know what makes a cat wild, but what makes Oscar Wilde?" Whitman hoisted a glass to his health, while Ambrose Bierce denounced him as a fraud. Wilde helped alter the way post-Civil War Americans-still reeling from the most destructive conflict in their history-understood themselves. In an era that saw rapid technological changes, social upheaval, and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, he delivered a powerful anti-materialistic message about art and the need for beauty. Yet Wilde too was changed by his tour. Having conquered America, a savvier, more mature writer was ready to take on the rest of the world. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.

Plays 1 / Oscar Wilde : The duchess of Padua ; Salomé: drame en un acte ; Salomé: tragedy in one act
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ISBN: 0198119607 0198119623 0198187726 9780198119616 9780198119579 9780198119647 9780198119630 9780198187721 0198119615 9780198119623 0198119577 019811964X Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Wilde's wiles : studies of the influences on Oscar Wilde and his enduring influences in the twenty-first century
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ISBN: 1443865974 9781443865975 1322057001 9781322057002 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Wilde's Wiles: Studies of the Influences on Oscar Wilde and His Enduring Influences in the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays which celebrates the diversity of Oscar Wilde's genius. This unique collection of scholarship explores not only his influence on a broad spectrum of subjects including: aesthetics, children's literature, women's issues, consumer economics, queer theory, politics, theater, film, poetry, Victorianism and other aspects of culture such as pedagogical approaches...


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Quintessential Wilde : his worldly place, his penetrating philosophy and his influential aestheticism
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ISBN: 1443868442 9781443868440 9781443899895 1443899895 Year: 2017 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

Wilde writings : contextual conditions
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ISBN: 0802035329 9786612014437 1282014439 1442683503 9781442683501 9781282014435 9780802035325 6612014431 1487525451 Year: 2003 Volume: 1 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,

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"Wilde Writings brings together research by established and emerging scholars, some of whom draw on unpublished archival material, and all of whom have something new and enlightening to say about Wilde. The collection provides fresh insights into critical debates about Wilde and effeminacy, masochism, and Christian theology, and also draws attention to significant problems in the textual editing of his writings, his debt to the 'aesthetic' fiction of the novelist Ouida, and the popularity of his drama in twentieth-century China."--Jacket.

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