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PublisherOhio University Press

ISBN-100821418378

ISBN-139780821418376

eBay Product ID (ePID)66935617

Product Key Features

Number of Pages448 Pages

Publication NameOscar Wilde and Modern Culture : the Making of a Legend

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

SubjectGeneral, LGBT, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorJoseph Bristow

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight23.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2008-039566

Reviews"If Oscar Wilde was, by all accounts, the most desirable guest of his time--magnetic, provocative, and outrageously funny--then Joseph Bristow is, on the evidence of this volume ( Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture ), the most accomplished host of our own age."-- The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, "This is an impressive and important book that all scholars of Wilde, the fin-de-siécle , and modernism will find useful."-- Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, This is an impressive and important book that all scholars of Wilde, the fin-de-siécle, and modernism will find useful." — Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, "Joseph Bristow's Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend brings together a dozen essays, most of which are devoted to illustrating Richard Ellmann's assertion that 'Wilde is one of us,' and all of which, taken together, richly complicate Ellman's remark by making clear that we --the inheritors of Wilde's life and work--have been an enormously varied group, interpreting and appropriating that legacy with a promiscuously Wildean freedom."-- Victorian Studies, Joseph Bristow's Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend brings together a dozen essays, most of which are devoted to illustrating Richard Ellmann's assertion that ‘Wilde is one of us,‘ and all of which, taken together, richly complicate Ellman's remark by making clear that we—the inheritors of Wilde's life and work—have been an enormously varied group, interpreting and appropriating that legacy with a promiscuously Wildean freedom." — Victorian Studies, "Though other works have looked at particular cultural aspects of Wilde's influence...none casts as interesting and broad a cultural net, with as much knowledge and nuance as this volume does.... Highly recommended ."-- CHOICE, Though other works have looked at particular cultural aspects of Wilde's influence…none casts as interesting and broad a cultural net, with as much knowledge and nuance as this volume does.… Highly recommended." — CHOICE, If Oscar Wilde was, by all accounts, the most desirable guest of his time—magnetic, provocative, and outrageously funny—then Joseph Bristow is, on the evidence of this volume (Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture), the most accomplished host of our own age." — The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal828/.809

SynopsisOscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer's reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas., Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer's reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas. Always renowned-if not notorious-for his fashionable persona, Wilde courted celebrity at an early age. Later, he came to prominence as one of the most talented essayists and fiction writers of his time. In the years leading up to his two-year imprisonment, Wilde stood among the foremost dramatists in London. But after he was sent down for committing acts of "gross indecency" it seemed likely that social embarrassment would inflict irreparable damage to his legacy. As this volume shows, Wilde died in comparative obscurity. Little could he have realized that in five years his name would come back into popular circulation thanks to the success of Richard Strauss's opera Salome and Robert Ross's edition of De Profundi . With each succeeding decade, the twentieth century continued to honor Wilde's name by keeping his plays in repertory, producing dramas about his life, adapting his works for film, and devising countless biographical and critical studies of his writings. This volume reveals why, more than a hundred years after his demise, Wilde's value in the academic world, the auction house, and the entertainment industry stands higher than that of any modern writer., Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer's reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas. Always renowned--if not notorious--for his fashionable persona, Wilde courted celebrity at an early age. Later, he came to prominence as one of the most talented essayists and fiction writers of his time. In the years leading up to his two-year imprisonment, Wilde stood among the foremost dramatists in London. But after he was sent down for committing acts of "gross indecency" it seemed likely that social embarrassment would inflict irreparable damage to his legacy. As this volume shows, Wilde died in comparative obscurity. Little could he have realized that in five years his name would come back into popular circulation thanks to the success of Richard Strauss's opera Salome and Robert Ross's edition of De Profundi. With each succeeding decade, the twentieth century continued to honor Wilde's name by keeping his plays in repertory, producing dramas about his life, adapting his works for film, and devising countless biographical and critical studies of his writings. This volume reveals why, more than a hundred years after his demise, Wilde's value in the academic world, the auction house, and the entertainment industry stands higher than that of any modern writer.

LC Classification NumberPR5824O85 2008