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Oscar Wilde in America
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Oscar Wilde
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-06 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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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 decorat
Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: David M. Friedman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-06 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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The story of Oscar Wilde’s landmark 1882 American tour explains how this quotable literary eminence became famous for being famous. On January 3, 1882, Oscar
Oscar Wilde Discovers America
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Louis Edwards
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-28 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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This compelling and unique fictional foray into American history follows a brilliantly conjured Wilde and his young black valet on a whirlwind tour across the c
Making Oscar Wilde
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Michèle Mendelssohn
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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
Declaring His Genius
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Roy Morris Jr.
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-07 - Publisher: Belknap Press

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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 th