Michele Mendelssohn (Associate Prof Associate Professor of English

Broschiertes Buch

Making Oscar Wilde

Beschreibung

Packed with new evidence, Making Oscar Wilde tells the untold story of a local Irish eccentric who became a global cultural icon. This must-read book dramatizes Oscar Wilde's remarkable rise in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Michà le Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.

Autor

Michèle Mendelssohn is a literary critic and cultural historian. She is Associate Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, earned her doctorate from Cambridge University, and was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. Mendelssohn's previous books include Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture and two co-edited collections of literary criticism, Alan Hollinghurst and Late Victorian Into Modern (shortlisted for the 2017 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize). She has published in The New York Times, The Guardian, African American Review, Journal of American Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature, and Victorian Literature and Culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 135mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780198802372
• ISBN-10: 0198802374
• Artikelnr.: 59546712