Making Oscar Wilde Michèle Mendelssohn

Making Oscar Wilde Michèle Mendelssohn – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198802365,0198802366,9780192523303, 0192523309

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• ISBN 10:0192523309
• ISBN 13: 9780192523303
• Author: Michèle Mendelssohn

Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar’s career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. ‘Success is a science,’ Wilde believed, ‘if you have the conditions, you get the result.’ Combining new evidence and gripping cultural history, Mich?le Mendelssohn dramatizes Wilde’s rise, fall, and resurrection as part of a spectacular transatlantic pageant. With superb style and an instinct for story-telling, she brings to life the charming young Irishman who set out to captivate the United States and Britain with his words and ended up conquering the world. Following the twists and turns of Wilde’s journey, Mendelssohn vividly depicts sensation-hungry Victorian journalism and popular entertainment alongside racial controversies, sex scandals, and the growth of Irish nationalism. This ground-breaking revisionist history shows how Wilde’s tumultuous early life embodies the story of the Victorian era as it tottered towards modernity. Riveting and original, Making Oscar Wilde is a masterful account of a life like no other.

Table contents:

Chapter 1. Turning Points
Chapter 2. Do You Find the World Very Hollow?
Chapter 3. Astonishing the Dons
Chapter 4. Not Having Set the World Quite on Fire
Chapter 5. Colonel Morse’s Campaign
Chapter 6. Oscar Dear
Chapter 7. Mr Wild of Borneo, or The Paddy
Chapter 8. Life Imitates Art
Chapter 9. Is it Manhood?
Chapter 10. The War of Art
Chapter 11. Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing
Chapter 12. Son of Speranza
Chapter 13. Underground Men
Chapter 14. Going South
Chapter 15. The Confederate
Chapter 16. Success is a Science
Chapter 17. You Have Made Your Name
Chapter 18. By the Throat

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