Declaring His Genius
Oscar Wilde in America, 1882
1st Edition
Published on 14. January 2013
240 pages
978-0-674-06787-5 (ISBN)
Description
Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had ",nothing to declare but my genius.", But as this sparkling narrative reveals, Wilde was, rarely for him, underselling himself. A chronicle of his sensational eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.
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Roy Morris, Jr., is the editor of Military Heritage and the author of six previous books on nineteenth-century American history and literature, including The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Too Too Utterly Utter
- 2. More Wonderful Than Dickens
- 3. Those Who Dawnce Don't Dine
- 4. What Would Thoreau Have Said to My Hat-Box!
- 5. No Well-Behaved River Ought to Act This Way
- 6. A Very Italy, Without Its Art
- 7. Don't Shoot the Pianist
- He's Doing His Best
- 8. You Should Have Seen It Before the War
- 9. The Oscar of the First Period Is Dead
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
