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Book SynopsisOscar Wilde's grand U.S. tour, captured in dozens of newspaper interviews
Trade Review"A generous and welcome sampling."--
New York Review of Books "Highly recommended."--Choice
"[A] rewarding, absorbing, and necessary book."--
The Gay and Lesbian Review "Wilde was a source of fascination and provocation, and these assembled portraits reveal the rawness and the refinements, the pride and the anxieties, of American culture in the making during this important period. A vital and valuable book."--Eric Haralson, editor of
Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry"This stimulating work is an invaluable record of Wilde's speech, appearance, and demeanor. An excitingly fresh study of interest both to Wilde specialists and to general readers."--Donald Mead, chairman of the Oscar Wilde Society and editor of
The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies
