Oscar Wilde
Subtitle: the unrepentant years
By: Nicholas Frankel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780674737945
Subjects: Exile; Death and burial; Imprisonment; Irish Authors; Biography
Description: 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. The prison years, 1895-1897: Fettered and chained; title: From the depths; title: Part two. Oscar Wilde in exile, 1897-1900: Release; title: The pursuit of love; title: The Ballad of Reading Gaol; title: The seduction of Paris; title: A confraternity of the damned; title: The solace of spectatorship; title: Decline and death.