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    Making Oscar Wilde / Michèle Mendelssohn.
    by Mendelssohn, Michèle.
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    Oxford University Press, 2018.
    Call #:921 W672me
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  • Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
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  • Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.
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  • Gay authors -- 19th century -- Biography.
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  • Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.
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  • Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
  • ISBN: 
    9780198802365 (hc.)
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    viii, 360 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
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    "Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. "Success is a science," Wilde believed, "if you have the conditions, you get the result." Combining new evidence and gripping cultural history, Michele Mendelssohn dramatizes Wilde's rise, fall, and resurrection as part of a spectacular transatlantic pageant. With superb style and an instinct for story-telling, she brings to life the charming young Irishman who set out to captivate the United States and Britain with his words and ended up conquering the world. Following the twists and turns of Wilde's journey, Mendelssohn vividly depicts sensation-hungry Victorian journalism and popular entertainment alongside racial controversies, sex scandals, and the growth of Irish nationalism. This ground-breaking revisionist history shows how Wilde's tumultuous early life embodies the story of the Victorian era as it tottered towards modernity. Riveting and original, Making Oscar Wilde is a masterful account of a life like no other."--Jacket.
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