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    Oscar Wilde in America
    The Interviews

    Oscar Wilde (Author), Matthew Hofer (Edited by), Gary Scharnhorst (Edited by)

    9780252034725

    Hardback, published 6 January 2010

    208 pages, 1 photographs; 1 drawing
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.481 kg

    "A generous and welcome sampling."--New York Review of Books
     

    "Highly recommended."--Choice

    "[A] rewarding, absorbing, and necessary book."--The Gay and Lesbian Review 
    "Wilde was a source of fascination and provocation, and these assembled portraits reveal the rawness and the refinements, the pride and the anxieties, of American culture in the making during this important period. A vital and valuable book."--Eric Haralson, editor of Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry "This stimulating work is an invaluable record of Wilde's speech, appearance, and demeanor. An excitingly fresh study of interest both to Wilde specialists and to general readers."--Donald Mead, chairman of the Oscar Wilde Society and editor of The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies

    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.
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