Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend
- ISBN-10
- 0821418386
- ISBN-13
- 9780821418383
- Category
- Homosexuality and literature
- Pages
- 401
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Author
- Joseph Bristow
Description
This book explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of this influential writer's reputation. In the years leading up to his two-year imprisonment, Wilde stood among the foremost dramatists in London. But after he was sent down for committing acts of "gross indecency" it seemed likely that social embarrassment would inflict irreparable damage to his legacy. He died in comparative obscurity. Little could he have realized that in five years his name would come back into popular circulation thanks to the success of Richard Strauss's opera Salomé and Robert Ross's edition of De Profundi. With each succeeding decade, the twentieth century continued to honor Wilde's name by keeping his plays in repertory, producing dramas about his life, adapting his works for film, and devising countless biographical and critical studies of his writings.
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