The Stranger Wilde - Interpreting Oscar by Gary Schmidgall copyright 19941st edition. This book with dustjacket is in very good condition - Dustjacket in very good condition with no wear in protective cover and book has no torn or missing pages nor writing in the book
A lively, original, often moving portrait of Oscar Wilde, this
biographical essay claims him as "one of the . . . great liberators
Ireland has produced," a moral philosopher akin to Nietzsche as an
unmasker of hypocrisy and prudery. Peering behind Wilde's public
personas as scourge of Victorian verities, aesthete, arbiter of style
and colorful talker, Schmidgall ( Literature As Opera ) probes his
"essentially childish spirit," his strain of misanthropy, his "ruinous
infatuation" with young men and the Falstaffian exuberance that lent him
charisma. Delightfully illustrated with period drawings and
photographs, this unconventional life is organized thematically, with
chapters on Wilde's unhappy marriage; his spiritual kinship with Lady
Jane ("Speranza") Wilde, his "flamboyant, eagle-beaked" mother; his
homosexuality; his notorious conviction for sodomy; and so forth.
Schmidgall builds a tantalizing if strained case that Wilde's
autobiographical literary works embody "a concerted and devastating
attack on the Closet."
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