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Declaring his genius [[electronic resource] ] : Oscar Wilde in North America / / Roy Morris, Jr



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Autore: Morris Roy, Jr. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Declaring his genius [[electronic resource] ] : Oscar Wilde in North America / / Roy Morris, Jr Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p., [16] p. of plates ) : ill., ports
Disciplina: 828/.809
Soggetto topico: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Too too utterly utter -- More wonderful than Dickens -- Those who dawnce don't dine -- What would Thoreau have said to my hatbox? -- No well-behaved river ought to act this way -- A very italy, without its art -- Don't shoot the pianist, he is doing his best -- You should have seen it before the war -- The Oscar of the first period is dead.
Sommario/riassunto: Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had "nothing to declare but my genius." But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveals in this sparkling narrative, Wilde was, for the first time in his life, underselling himself. A chronicle of the sensation that was Wilde's eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Wilde covered 15,000 miles, delivered 140 lectures, and met everyone who was anyone. Dressed in satin knee britches and black silk stockings, the long-haired apostle of the British Aesthetic Movement alternately shocked, entertained, and enlightened a spellbound nation. Harvard students attending one of his lectures sported Wildean costume, clutching sunflowers and affecting world-weary poses. Denver prostitutes enticed customers by crying: "We know what makes a cat wild, but what makes Oscar Wilde?" Whitman hoisted a glass to his health, while Ambrose Bierce denounced him as a fraud. Wilde helped alter the way post-Civil War Americans-still reeling from the most destructive conflict in their history-understood themselves. In an era that saw rapid technological changes, social upheaval, and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, he delivered a powerful anti-materialistic message about art and the need for beauty. Yet Wilde too was changed by his tour. Having conquered America, a savvier, more mature writer was ready to take on the rest of the world. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.
Titolo autorizzato: Declaring his genius  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-07139-5
0-674-06787-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786153203321
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