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Oscar 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

Oscar Wilde in America

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    A Paperback / softback by Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer, Gary Scharnhorst

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 02/07/2013
      ISBN13: 9780252079726, 978-0252079726
      ISBN10: 0252079728
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Oscar 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

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