Oscar Wilde : the unrepentant years
Frankel, Nicholas (1962 -)
Oscar Wilde : the unrepentant years / Nicholas Frankel - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 - 374 p. : illus. ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one. The prison years, 1895-1897: Fettered and chained -- From the depths -- Part two. Oscar Wilde in exile, 1897-1900: Release -- The pursuit of love -- The Ballad of Reading Gaol -- The seduction of Paris -- A confraternity of the damned -- The solace of spectatorship -- Decline and death.
Nicholas Frankel presents a revisionary account of Oscar Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile in Europe following his release from an English prison for the crime of gross indecency between men. Despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde - unapologetic and even defiant - attempted to rebuild himself as a man, and a man of letters.
English.
9780674737945
Wilde, Oscar---Exile---France---1854 - 1900
Wilde, Oscar---Imprisonment---1854 - 1900
Wilde, Oscar---Death and burial---1854 - 1900
Authors, Irish---19th century----Biography
PR5823 / .F67 2017
92 WIL
Oscar Wilde : the unrepentant years / Nicholas Frankel - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 - 374 p. : illus. ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one. The prison years, 1895-1897: Fettered and chained -- From the depths -- Part two. Oscar Wilde in exile, 1897-1900: Release -- The pursuit of love -- The Ballad of Reading Gaol -- The seduction of Paris -- A confraternity of the damned -- The solace of spectatorship -- Decline and death.
Nicholas Frankel presents a revisionary account of Oscar Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile in Europe following his release from an English prison for the crime of gross indecency between men. Despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde - unapologetic and even defiant - attempted to rebuild himself as a man, and a man of letters.
English.
9780674737945
Wilde, Oscar---Exile---France---1854 - 1900
Wilde, Oscar---Imprisonment---1854 - 1900
Wilde, Oscar---Death and burial---1854 - 1900
Authors, Irish---19th century----Biography
PR5823 / .F67 2017
92 WIL
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