Making Oscar Wilde

ISBN-13: 9780198802372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 368 str.

Associate Professor Michele (Associate Professor of English

Opis

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. Michele Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.

Recenzje

Michèle Mendelssohn's book is an erudite and thorough retelling of the life of a cultural icon ... Full of unique and previously unknown facts about Wilde, it is a vivid and sympathetic expression of a totally unique and gifted man.

O autorze

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.