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Making Oscar Wilde
Taschenbuch von Michele Mendelssohn
Sprache: 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.
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: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198802372
ISBN-10: 0198802374
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mendelssohn, Michele
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 215 x 137 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Michele Mendelssohn
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2020
Gewicht: 0,426 kg
Artikel-ID: 118478845
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: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198802372
ISBN-10: 0198802374
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mendelssohn, Michele
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 215 x 137 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Michele Mendelssohn
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2020
Gewicht: 0,426 kg
Artikel-ID: 118478845
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