Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews

ISBN-13: 9780252079726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str.

Oscar Wilde; Matthew Hofer; Gary Scharnhorst

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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.