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Oscar Wilde : the unrepentant years

Author

Frankel, Nicholas, 1962-

Title

Oscar Wilde : the unrepentant years / Nicholas Frankel.

Format

Book

Published

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017. ©2017

Description

374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Prologue
• Part one. The prison years, 1895-1897. Fettered and chained
• From the depths
• Part two. Oscar Wilde in exile, 1897-1900. Release
• The pursuit of love
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol
• The seduction of Paris
• A confraternity of the damned
• The solace of spectatorship
• Decline and death
• Epilogue.

Summary

Nicholas Frankel presents a revisionary account of Oscar Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile in Europe following his release from an English prison for the crime of gross indecency between men. Despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde--unapologetic and even defiant--attempted to rebuild himself as a man, and a man of letters.-- ǂc Provided by publisher.

Kinsey subjects

Biographies of homosexuals--Male

ISBN

9780674737945