LEADER 03835nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910788988203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-01767-9 010 $a9786613017673 010 $a0-252-09288-0 035 $a(CKB)3390000000006655 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000544472 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11926029 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544472 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10536311 035 $a(PQKB)10020787 035 $a(OCoLC)747306201 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24582 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3414157 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10622422 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL301767 035 $a(OCoLC)923496458 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3414157 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000006655 100 $a20090420d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aOscar Wilde in America$b[electronic resource] $ethe interviews /$fedited by Matthew Hofer & Gary Scharnhorst 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$dc2010 215 $a193 p. $cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-252-07972-8 311 $a0-252-03472-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $a"Confronted at every turn by an insatiable audience of sometimes hostile interviewers, the young poet tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. Seeing America and Americans for the first time, Wilde's perception often proved as sharp as his wit; the echoes of both resound in much of his later writings. His interviewers also succeeded in getting him to talk about many other topics, from his opinions of British and American writers (he thought Poe was America's greatest poet) to his views of Mormonism. This 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."--BOOK JACKET. 330 1 $a"This comprehensive and authoritative collection of Oscar Wilde's American interviews affords readers a fresh look at the making of a literary legend. Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer (at twenty-six years old, he had by then published just one volume of poems), Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts that was organized to publicize a touring opera, Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, which lampooned him and satirized the Aesthetic "movement" he had been imported to represent." "In this year-long series of broadly distributed and eagerly read newspaper interviews, Wilde excelled as a master of self-promotion. He visited major cities from New York to San Francisco but also small railroad towns along the way, granting interviews to newspapers wherever asked. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and reporters noted that he was dressed for the part. He wooed and flattered his hosts everywhere, pronouncing Miss Alsatia Allen of Montgomery, Alabama, the most beautiful young lady he had seen in the United States, adding, "This is a remark, my dear fellow, I supposed I have made of some lady in every city I have visited in this country. It could be appropriately made. American women are very beautiful."". 606 $aAuthors, Irish$y19th century$vInterviews 615 0$aAuthors, Irish 676 $a828/.809 701 $aWilde$b Oscar$f1854-1900.$0118841 701 $aHofer$b Matthew$01541243 701 $aScharnhorst$b Gary$01510553 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788988203321 996 $aOscar Wilde in America$93793281 997 $aUNINA