Michèle Mendelssohn: Making Oscar Wilde

Cover: 9780198802372 | Making Oscar Wilde | Michèle Mendelssohn | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Packed with new evidence, Making Oscar Wilde tells the untold story of a local Irish eccentric who became a global cultural icon. This must-read book dramatizes Oscar Wilde's remarkable rise in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Michèle Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.

Über den Autor

Michèle Mendelssohn is a literary critic and cultural historian. She is Associate Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, earned her doctorate from Cambridge University, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. Mendelssohn's previous books include Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture and two co-edited collections of literary criticism, Alan Hollinghurst and Late Victorian Into Modern (shortlisted for the 2017 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize). She has published in The New York Times, The Guardian, African American Review, Journal of American Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature, and Victorian Literature and Culture.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Plates

Prologue: What's the matter with Oscar Wilde?

PART ONE, 1854-1881

Turning Points

Do You Find the World Very Hollow?

Astonishing the Dons

Not Having Set the World Quite on Fire

PART TWO, 1882-1883

Colonel Morse's Campaign

Oscar Dear

Mr. Wild of Borneo, or The Paddy

Life Imitates Art

Is it Manhood?

The War of Art

Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing

Son of Speranza

Underground Men

Going South

The Confederate

PART THREE, 1883-1900

Success is a Science

You Have Made Your Name

By the Throat

Epilogue: The Private View

Appendix: The Mystery of Wilde's Black Valet

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198802372
ISBN-10:	0198802374
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mendelssohn, Michèle
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	213 x 135 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	Michèle Mendelssohn
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2020
Gewicht:	0,408 kg