After Oscar the legacy of a scandal
"The definitive study of the rise and fall of Oscar Wilde after his death, written by Wilde's only grandson. Oscar Wilde died in November 1900, exiled in Paris and exhausted by scandal and prison life. The details of his life in the limelight are well known; what have regularly been ignored are the...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Europa Editions,
2025.
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| Summary: | "The definitive study of the rise and fall of Oscar Wilde after his death, written by Wilde's only grandson. Oscar Wilde died in November 1900, exiled in Paris and exhausted by scandal and prison life. The details of his life in the limelight are well known; what have regularly been ignored are the reverberations of the scandal for decades after his death. With pathos, humour, and his grandfather's signature wit, Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker, and traces the dramatic fluctuations in Wilde's posthumous reputation over the past 125 years. A true feat of storytelling and scholarship, After Oscar tells the story of Oscar's wife Constance and his sons Cyril and Vyvyan; his lovers, friends, and enemies; the afterlife of De Profundis; sightings from beyond the grave; the fate of the Wilde estate; and Oscar's contemporary status as a gay icon. The most important work on Wilde in over fifty years, After Oscar exposes decades of sensationalist conjecture surrounding the Wilde family, and documents a century of homophobia within the British establishment"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 686 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9798889661764 |
| Author Notes: | (Bowker Author Biography) |
